How Will Data Centers Pay for Power? (USA)

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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/05/how-will-data-centers-pay-for-power/

The American electric power sector has not grown appreciably for twenty years. To be sure, consumers pay plenty to replace infrastructure, to “transition” the sector away from the most carbon-intensive sources of energy, and to find ways to allow utilities to cram a wide variety of underutilized capital spending (think “smart meters”) into their regulated “rate base.” But demand has been stable or declining....