Who Should Pay to Power the Midwest?

During my internship at Midstory, I was given the opportunity to not only edit some of their videos, but also to create some of the graphics used for stories on their website. This one was used for the story known as "As Data Centers Strain Grids, Who Should Pay?" which touches on how the cost of electricity in the Midwest is putting a strain not only on the power grids themselves, but the people living there too. For this story, I went through a lot of iterations over the course of a week, with help from the fellows to guide my direction. One thing that stayed throughout all of those though was the idea of an up arrow, which I fused with the powerline cables in Adobe Illustrator in order to leave us with this. It was my first graphic posted directly to the website, and I'm very happy with how it came out.