Oct 29, 2025 - How data center power demand could help lower electricity prices
The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That`s faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional wisdom blames the demand for power on the explosive growth of data centers, but a new analysis concludes that it’s not that simple. John Yang reports on the other factors behind the rising costs.