Electricity Costs Are Soaring and AI Will Make Matters Worse
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Electricity demand for AI data centers is soaring. The result won’t be pretty. Consumer electricity costs from BLS, Industrial costs from Statista, chart by Mish Chart Notes: Industrial prices for 1980-2010 only for years divisible by 5. The rest are extrapolated. I estimated the consumer cost for 2025 from …