{"id":186905,"date":"2026-02-13T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:05:09","slug":"utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Utilities Soar On Surging Power Demand From Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/\">Utilities Soar On Surging Power Demand From Data Centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/\">https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 00:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedailyupside.com\">www.thedailyupside.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Utilities giants PG&amp;E and AEP report increased power demand due to the AI boom, echoing profits reported by Duke Energy and Ameren.<\/li>\n<li>Utilities are significantly increasing investment to meet the growing power needs of data centers, passing part of the costs onto consumers in the form of rising electricity prices.<\/li>\n<li>The US electricity prices have grown by 6.9% in 2024, more than double the headline inflation rate, with anticipated further increases: 6% in 2027 and 3% in 2028.<\/li>\n<li>With rising electricity prices, lawmakers are paying attention: The bipartisan \u201cGRID\u201d Act aims to stop data center-related billing hikes for households and require data centers to use off-grid energy sources.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a broader move to control utility cost increases, including state interventions like New Jersey\u2019s \u201cstate of emergency\u201d and New York\u2019s rate reduction by utility regulators.<\/li>\n<li>The White House has made deals with tech companies where they manage their own new energy needs, influencing companies like Anthropic to estimate and cover consumer price hikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilities Soar On Surging Power Demand From Data Centers https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/utilities-soar-on-surging-power-demand-from-data-centers\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13 00:02:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/getty-images-5jzNmwx_dHM-unsplash-scaled-e1770934557651.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186907,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186905\/revisions\/186907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}