Are data centers driving up electricity bills for regular people?
Reporting and utility filings increasingly point that way. Building new transmission and generation capacity to serve data center demand costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and those costs are typically socialized across ratepayers — meaning households can end up subsidizing infrastructure built primarily for corporate AI compute.
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