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2025.10.27 | Who Pays? AI Data Centers, Grid Costs, and Your Utility Bill

2025.10.27 | Who Pays? AI Data Centers, Grid Costs, and Your Utility Bill

Update: 2025-10-27
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The AI boom is colliding with the US power grid, leaving consumers to question whether they will socialize the billions in necessary infrastructure costs. We unpack the dramatic increase in load growth—a 45% surge driven almost entirely by new data centers—and the federal push by the DOE to nationalize interconnection oversight to speed things up. Explore the sharp conflict between standardized federal cost allocation and utility preference for negotiated deals to protect existing customers from rising grid costs. Understand the critical policy decisions facing FERC Chairman Laura Sweat and what this massive spending push means for your existing utility bill and future national energy priorities.

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2025.10.27 | Who Pays? AI Data Centers, Grid Costs, and Your Utility Bill

2025.10.27 | Who Pays? AI Data Centers, Grid Costs, and Your Utility Bill

Edmundo Rodriguez