Opinion: Data Centers and Electricity Costs By the Numbers

February 13, 2026

While there is a push by some politicians of both parties to singularly blame, and in some cases scapegoat, datacenters for rising electricity prices, data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) tells a much different story.

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