The reason electricity prices are rising, and it's not data centers (washingtonpost.com)

paywall: https://archive.ph/WwIQh

Says the media outlet owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Amazon happens to be one of the, if not THE, largest builders of data centers ever.

Original article (Science Direct): "Factors influencing recent trends in retail electricity prices in the United States" - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061902...

Data Center Demand Fuels Surge in Electric Costs - https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/data-center-demand-fue... - October 8th, 2025

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec... - September 29th, 2025

How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-ai-infrastructure-is-d... - September 5th, 2025

Data centers will cause higher electricity prices, study finds - https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2025/08/28/data-centers-... - August 28th, 2025

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act - https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-a... - August 8th, 2025

CMU: Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets - https://www.cmu.edu/work-that-matters/energy-innovation/data...

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

the washington post saying their owner's data centers have a minimal impact on electricity prices rising is laughable

I live in the area the problem is that it hasn’t been windy enough. also been very cloudy. also government shutdown is making people watch more tv. it is definitely not never-ending line of data centers and cranes and cranes building new ones :)