Personally, some of my electricity bills will soon be rising because of changes to how rates are computed. The added "demand charge" will penalize customers that have variable loads, while benefiting data centers with relatively constant loads.

Also IMHO, we are building way too many data centers right now. It reminds me a lot of the Y2K dot.com crash, and all of the residual dark fiber.

I spotted this article today that claims it's all in our imagination.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/data-centers-arent-rais...