The Numbers That Should Scare Every PJM Ratepayer If you live in any of the 13 states that PJM Interconnection serves — from Illinois to Virginia, Ohio to New Jersey — your electricity bill just got more expensive, and the reason sits inside a number the market monitor released this week: $6.3 billion. That is what data centers cost PJM ratepayers in the grid operator's most recent capacity...

The Number That Should Scare Every PJM Ratepayer Here is a number that should stop you cold: 6.3 billion dollars. That is how much data center demand added to PJM Interconnection's latest capacity auction, according to Joseph Bowring at Monitoring Analytics — the grid operator's independent market monitor. In a single auction cycle, data centers accounted for 38 percent of the total...

PJM's Grid Is 6.8 Gigawatts Short — and Data Centers Are Driving the Crisis On July 14, the PJM Interconnection — the largest power grid in the United States, serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C. — finished its latest capacity auction. The result was a third consecutive reliability shortfall and a $16.4 billion payout that hit the federal price...