I remember when in school in history class we all were upset when we learnt that the land lord demanded a "tenth" from the agricultural gains.
Those were the times...
Quite honestly, if a bank robber goes into a bank and shoots himself into his foot, saying: 'now imagine what I could do to you' - I'd be pretty impressed!
Electricity prices for consumers currently are heavily subsidized in France because otherwise there would be riots: spot market prices are regularly above 0.40€ and the current end user price would probably be around 0.80€.
OVH is a business, thus they have to pay the real prices.
In the end we will all pay via massive inflation for the competence of the European politicians.