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AI taking toll on America’s largest power grid
Orissa POST
|July 10, 2025
America’s largest power grid is under strain as data centres and AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be built.
Electricity bills are projected to surge by more than 20% this summer in some parts of PJM Interconnection’s territory, which covers 13 states - from Illinois to Tennessee, Virginia to New Jersey - serving 67 million customers in a region with the most data centres in the world.
The governor of Pennsylvania is threatening to abandon the grid, the CEO has announced his departure and the chair of PJM’s board of managers and another board member were voted out.
The upheaval at PJM started a year ago with a more than 800% jump in prices at its annual capacity auction. Rising prices out of the auction trickle down to everyday people’s power bills.
Now PJM is barreling towards its next capacity auction Wednesday, when prices may rise even further.
This story is from the July 10, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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