Will PJM Do What It Takes to Get Data-Center Costs Under Control?

Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say

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Data Center Growth Drives Locals to Fight for More Say in States Like Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon

When local activist Frank Arcoleo found out over the summer that a data center was coming to his neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he said he was furious. There’d been no votes or public hearings. The first phase of the data center project under development there only required administrative approval from a few city officials, based on the building permit application and state laws. “So these data centers are going in, and guess what? The…

Will PJM do what it takes to get data-center costs under control?

The data-center boom is pushing electricity costs to the breaking point for PJM Interconnection — the country’s biggest grid operator, serving more than 65 million people from the mid-Atlantic coast to Illinois — and that’s fueling a popular backlash. Democratic gubernatorial candidates pledging to combat rising…

AI’s Power Hunger: Surging Bills and Grid Strain in Data Center Hotspots

In the heart of Virginia’s Loudoun County, often dubbed ‘Data Center Alley,’ residents are opening utility bills that feel more like a punch to the gut. Wholesale electricity prices have skyrocketed by as much as 267% over the past five years in areas dense with data centers, according to a recent analysis by Bloomberg. This surge is no anomaly—it’s the direct fallout from the artificial intelligence boom, where massive data centers powering AI …

Energy costs, grid strain are reshaping the market

The basics: AI-driven data centers are accelerating electricity demand and stressing NJ’s power grid Rising energy costs and grid congestion threaten industrial projects, especially cold storage facilities Developers must treat electricity as core infrastructure, writer says Small Modular Reactors and AI-enabled efficiency systems offer promising near-term solutions U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month secured a Department of Energy st…