Posted on 08/28/2025 1:24:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Energy Department projects that next year, data centers and other commercial facilities will use more electricity than households for the first time.
Electricity costs continue to climb nationwide, and experts say infrastructure is a major factor.
"I think it's important to understand that most of your electricity bill is infrastructure," said Mike O'Boyle, acting policy team director at Energy Innovation. "And you're paying for the infrastructure we have right now."
O'Boyle said modernization of the nation's aging infrastructure is colliding with higher demand and rising natural gas costs, which account for about 40% of U.S. electricity production.
"It's kind of a wicked problem right now coupled with the international supply chain and trade issues that are really complicating things," he said.
Natural gas supply costs surged in the first quarter of this year, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects 2026 prices will be double those of 2024, driven in part by increased demand.
"The United States will lead in AI," U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. "We gotta balance two things. We gotta win the AI race and stop the crazy rises in electricity prices."
The Energy Department projects that next year, data centers and other commercial facilities will use more electricity than households for the first time. This shift comes as the Trump administration halts renewable energy initiatives.
"We are adamantly going to stop that in the United States," Wright said.
The administration is also repealing many of the Biden-era green energy incentives — a move O'Boyle said could worsen price spikes.
"I think going forward, you're going to start to see the impacts of the current policy regime impacting customer bills," he said.
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In NYS, it's because they refuse to frack.
“In NYS, it’s because they refuse to frack.”
And the NY libs shut down a perfectly viable nuclear power plant and declared war on natural gas.
GREEN ENERGY
and shutting down Nuclear power plants
and NIMBY
Dumb a$$es in New England that don’t want a natural gas pipeline to go through their town.
Even when there has been a smaller diameter gas pipeline in the same place for fifty years.
Incredibly misleading to say it’s infrastructure. Maintenance and expansion were deferred to keep bills lower so that customers would not see how much corruption energy sources (solar and wind) actually cost. They are now trying to raise prices to catch up and blaming it on the work that should have been done over the last 15 years or so.
liberal taxation, liberals closing power plants, liberals tearing down dams, liberals forcing wind and solar down everyones throat which cost more.
A/C is now a luxury.
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Corporate Vultures Are SNAPPING UP Public Utilities & Electric Bills To SKYROCKET!
you just knew scripps would lie through their teeth: “Oh no, rising power costs have absolutely nothing to do with state mandates that require power companies to build billions of dollars of unreliable “green energy” thingies and pass the costs along to consumers.” ...
While we are told to not wash our clothes for as long, not drive as much, use lukewarm water rather than hot, and so on, AI is going to cause more energy use than every prior industry in history.
Why should we bother with all that low use?
Nuke Power or Mr. Fusions all-round.
Maybe shutting down nuclear plants, removing dams, closing grids...
Nukes are the answer - harass your Congress-critter about it.
Use some of the DOGE savings to seed a few dozen nukes.
It takes energy to provide all the things humans are demanding
using or just flitting away. Such is life and it changes over time
as new things are brought to the fore front.
Enjoy your three score and ten allotted on earth or outer space as
the world keeps spinning. Just think of all the humanoid ashes to
be dumped some where on earth or outer space as time progresses.
Money, money, makes the world go around...
here in jersey its because commie Murphy closed six power plants
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