Same diner. Same T-Ray. Word breaks that a hyperscale data center campus has been announced for central Louisiana outside Alexandria — Cleco territory, an hour and a half from the diner. Boudreaux does the load shock; Thibodaux walks through the ITEP + large-load tariff machinery. T-Ray asks the only question that matters at the counter: *”Dis good for us, or bad for us, podna?”* Thibodaux’s honest answer — *”Depend who write da rider, cher. And we ain’t writin’ it.”* — lands the punchline.
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Episode 009 — Da Phantom Megawatts, Cher!
Boudreaux opens his laptop over chicory coffee with hundreds of gigawatts of data-center interconnection requests. Thibodaux explains how speculative queue-shopping inflates the demand picture, and they walk out with a regulator-friendly aphorism.
Episode 005 — What All Dis On My Light Bill, Cher?
A neighbor’s electric bill becomes a forty-minute tariff lecture. Boudreaux explains the inclining-block energy charges; Thibodaux translates the rider stack into bayou English; the eight-dollar pole-mounted security light at the bottom of the bill becomes the unlikeliest classics-Latin joke this counter has hosted.