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Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse

pivot-to-ai.com Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse

ComEd customers in the Chicago area will see their electric bills go up an average of $10.50 per month by mid-2025. That’s because ComEd had to bid at auction in competition with data centers hooke…

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but on the flip side you also get awful summaries riddled with errors when you search something on google

Love how the Sun Times completely fails to explain why residential customers are bearing any of the cost.
- It's easy...these companies get massively reduced rates for electricity, and you get the increases in service because your poor. That's it.