> Even as the N.J. Board of Public Utilities increased its electric bill relief for eligible customers, a full recovery from surging electric costs doesn’t look to be part of the long-term prognosis for high energy bills as data center growth is at the epicenter of capacity market conditions.
> “The current conditions in the capacity market are almost entirely the result of large load additions from data centers, both actual historical and forecast,” the first part of a multi-layered and comprehensive report prepared for PJM found. “The growth in data center load and the expected future growth in data center load are unique and unprecedented and uncertain, and require a different approach than simply asserting that it is just supply and demand.”
https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/data-center-demand-fue...
Yeah, not all demand is the same, thus not all prices should be the same. New business customers with high electricity consumption should pay double and triple the household rate, whatever is necessary to make the books make sense.
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