I hate to be in the freezing cold to prove that I was right all along.
They should be the ones to suffer.
First guy I heard speculate on the cause was a friend on a break at work a long time ago. He said “I think the ballpark power outages and the ones starting to happen in a lot of cities is partly from cell phones.” “What? They only have little batteries smaller than a flashlight to recharge.” “But all those towers have to be powered and the whole country needs to recharge everything electric.”
I used to be part of a crew that installed cell towers and on-building cell antennas. Granted, that was in 2000, so technology may have changed. But, the computers needed to run each installation were the size of the average pickup truck bed, and drew so much power they needed special heavy-duty cables to handle the load.
And that was for non-smart flip-phones.
Pretty sure your friend is right. Those installations would probably draw enough power to make a dent in the electrical supply.
Ship home 50 million illegals and suddenly our infrastructure won’t be overextended.