Maryland residents are being charged roughly $1.6 to $2 billion in grid upgrade costs driven by rapid AI data center expansion, and state regulators filed a complaint with federal energy officials arguing the burden violates consumer protection commitments. The core cost and complaint are real, though the exact dollar figure varies slightly across reporting ($1.6B vs $2B appears to reflect different calculation periods). What's missing: whether data centers are actually paying anything toward these upgrades, or if the entire burden genuinely falls on residential ratepayers — the complaint implies cost-shifting but reporting doesn't clarify the baseline utility responsibility.