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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Private equity and AI companies are taking over our public utilities. I’m not having it.

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This is a longer note about how private equity executives and AI companies are taking over our country’s electrical grid — but I hope you stay with me, because it directly impacts the utility bills you receive every month.

Since President Trump took office a year and a half ago, gas and electricity bills have risen by 11%.

And private equity — you know, guys who are gutting hospitals, nursing homes, and local malls — they're on track to make things worse.

Let me zoom out for a sec and clarify what’s going on:

Right now, our country is using much more energy than before.

And don’t let them fool you. It's not because you're keeping the AC on longer or running the dryer too much. That increase is coming from AI data centers sucking up more and more electricity.

In fact, according to the International Energy Agency, data center electricity demand worldwide will more than DOUBLE by 2029.

And as always, Wall Street smells money.

Data centers need a tremendous amount of energy to go online. So much energy that our grid isn't ready. As AI scales up, it will require upgrades to our electrical grid — really expensive upgrades.

So private equity companies are now trying to buy up all the utility companies that will be responsible for making those upgrades.

And we know how damaging the private equity playbook can be to the industries they take over: They cut staff, make services worse, and jack up prices for consumers.

So basically, AI data centers and private equity interests will both be cashing in by taking over our public utility system, making your services worse, sucking up profits for themselves, and passing cost increases onto consumers.

And here's the real kicker: Utility companies are legally allowed to operate as monopolies.

So no matter how bad it gets, you're probably stuck with your utility company. If they come in and raise your rates, you gotta pay it. If private equity mismanages your utility company, you gotta deal with it.

I’m not having it.

I’ve already called for Big Tech companies to pay their fair share for the electrical grid updates made specifically to accommodate their data centers’ energy needs. And I’ve opened up oversight investigations into Blackrock and Blackstone in response to their utility company acquisitions.

All of us need to stand up to this corporate takeover. Add your name if you’re with me: Private equity executives should NOT be able to profit off of public goods like our utilities. Let’s demonstrate that there’s strong, public pushback to their greed.

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Thanks for being part of this,

Elizabeth

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Friday, May 22, 2026

How Private Equity Gutted Local Malls: Joann Fabrics, Red Lobster, Claire's, and More.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren

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 May 21, 2026

It’s the same story every time: Private equity marches in, a few wealthy investors buy the outfit, strip out the assets, load the company up with debt, and suck money out of it until it collapses. 

Then, after thousands and thousands of workers have been laid off, after pensions get raided, and after stores close, those private equity firms walk away with their pockets stuffed with cash.  

And there goes your local mall and all the stores you grew up with.

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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Re: Red Lobster

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Did you see this recent article?

Red Lobster set to bring back endless shrimp that drove it to bankruptcy

It makes a good headline: Restaurant brings back the thing that put them into bankruptcy in the first place. How could a company that offers endless shrimp NOT run out of money AGAIN?!

But if anyone looked right beneath the surface, they’d be able to see that Red Lobster’s real downfall wasn’t offering endless shrimp — it was private equity’s endless greed.

You see, a private equity firm bought Red Lobster in 2014, and did their thing: Looted profits, loaded Red Lobster up with debt, and saddled the restaurant chain with extra real-estate costs — following a model that reaps rewards for private equity owners but leaves communities, workers, and customers holding the bag.

At the end of the day their menu items and promotions don't matter: that's not what sent them to bankruptcy.

And Red Lobster isn’t the only victim of this blood-sucking phenomenon. Private equity’s harmful effects go far, far beyond the restaurant industry — from retail stores to nursing homes to fisheries to manufactured housing communities to hospital systems.

Private equity should not be allowed to loot one business after another, and I have introduced the most comprehensive bill to overhaul the private equity industry.

My Stop Wall Street Looting Act would put private investment fund managers on the hook for the companies they control, end looting, empower workers and investors, and safeguard the markets from risky corporate debt.

But it’ll be an uphill battle to overcome the powerful interests who want to preserve a status quo that means big profits for them — even as stores get closed, consumers get cheated, workers get laid off, and pensions get raided.

Say you’re in this fight to stop private equity from ransacking our economy, and sign on to say you support my Stop Wall Street Looting Act.

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Here are a few big pieces of what my Stop Wall Street Looting Act would accomplish:

Fundamentally reform the industry by closing the legal, tax, and regulatory loopholes that allow private equity firms to capture all the rewards of their investments while insulating themselves from risk.
Require private investment firms, the firm’s general partners, and their insiders to share responsibility for the liabilities of companies under their control — including debt, legal judgments, and pension-related obligations — to better align the incentives of private equity firms and the companies they own.
Ban dividends to investors and the outsourcing of jobs for two years after a firm is acquired — ending the extraction of resources from acquired companies.
Prevent private equity firms from walking away when a company fails and protect workers by improving rules so workers are more likely to receive severance and pensions in a bankruptcy.
Require private equity managers to disclose fees, returns, and other information about their funds so that investors can monitor their investments and shop around.
Reinstate Dodd-Frank provisions that require regulators to address risky leverage.

Big private equity firms have fat profits on the line here, so they’ll do everything they can to block our reforms. That means we can win only if we link arms, raise our voices together, and fight from the heart.

Add your name here to say you support my Stop Wall Street Looting Act, and side by side, we’ll tackle the private equity industry’s abuses.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth