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Monitoring Analytics
Coverage of Monitoring Analytics in the Nexus archive.
- The AI boom’s hidden electricity bill — and why you’re paying it
PJM Interconnection's 2028-29 capacity auction hit the maximum price cap of $325 per megawatt-day, driven by rising electricity demand from AI data centers. Moody’s Ratings highlighted that new power generation costs are being socialized across all ratepayers, not borne by AI-driven load customers, leading to higher bills for households and small businesses.
- Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market
Prices in the US' largest wholesale power market have nearly doubled due to demand from datacenters, with a 75.5% increase year over year. The PJM Interconnection serves 13 states and the District of Columbia. Monitoring Analytics predicts prices will get worse without changes.