How AI Data Centers Are Sending Your Power Bill Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. “The reliability crisis is here now; it’s not off in the distance somewhere,” said Mark Christie, a former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission who also served as a long-time Virginia regulator. He said that load forecasts — the expected demand for power on electricity grids — are a key factor pushing up costs, driven by the data center interconnection requests. Globally, data centers are expected to consume more than 4% of electricity by 2035, according to BloombergNEF. Put another way: If the facilities were a country they’d rank fourth in electricity use, behind only China, the US and India. Zuckerberg and Altman are the biggest losers ever yet in order for them to become trillionaires, working class people have seen atleast a double in electricity bills. Need to immediately pass legislature in every state to change the categorization of these data centers (and crypto farms) so the public doesn't have to pay. This is an infinitely more important issue than illegals being deported if you're an actual American citizen.
They should pay for the Extra Consumption . . . . PERIOD Rocket River They use it . .. they pay . .. . no welfare handouts for them.
