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RISING ELECTRIC BILLS SPARK SCRUTINY OF DATA CENTERS AS STATES WEIGH REGULATION

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August 16, 2025

Electric bills in the United States have climbed to their highest levels in more than a decade, and a growing body of evidence suggests that the data center boom is a contributing factor.

RISING ELECTRIC BILLS SPARK SCRUTINY OF DATA CENTERS AS STATES WEIGH REGULATION

State regulators, energy analysts, and consumer advocates are now raising alarms that the massive growth in computing power—driven by artificial intelligence, streaming, and cloud services—is not only reshaping local economies but also reshaping the nation’s power grid in costly ways. Once concentrated in specialized industrial parks, data centers are now sprawling across suburbs, rural towns, and tech corridors, drawing constant, enormous amounts of electricity. These facilities run 24/7, powering hundreds of thousands of servers and the cooling systems that keep them from overheating. As more states court tech investment, the energy appetite of these buildings is colliding with infrastructure limits and forcing utilities to invest heavily in generation and transmission upgrades—costs that often make their way into residential bills.

AI-DRIVEN ENERGY DEMAND AND A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE

For years, data centers largely supported traditional workloads such as email hosting, web storage, and business applications. That changed rapidly with the advent of large-scale AI models and high-performance computing clusters. Running a model like OpenAI’s GPT or Google's Gemini requires not just high-end GPUs but entire racks of them, all running at maximum capacity and drawing vastly more power than the servers of a decade ago.

Even after training, the AI systems must be served to millions of users in real time, creating a constant baseline of energy consumption. And the demand doesn't stop at AI—cloud-based gaming platforms, 4K and 8K video streaming, virtual production for movies, real-time financial modeling, and blockchain verification all require intensive, continuous computation.

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