The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

The start of a new month often brings familiar paperwork and, lately, a shock. Across the U.S., households are finding their electricity bills climbing higher than at any time in recent years. In ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Before you start carving pumpkins and putting on your Halloween costume, check this month’s electricity bill: There may be an extra $58.23 waiting for you. This month, most energy users in the state ...

Utility rates are rising in 41 states due to the increased demand from data centers on the electric grid. Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023, and are expected to triple by 2028.

Calvin Butler, the chief executive of Exelon, one of the nation’s largest utility companies, is trying to keep the lights on. By Jordyn Holman Jordyn Holman, who has been using A.I. a lot more lately, ...

As Illinois lawmakers finished their work for 2025, they began backing away from their four-year-old pledge that the state would produce electricity only from carbon-free sources by 2045. They did so ...

How much a data center coming to your town will affect your electricity bill often depends on whatever deal the tech firm struck with the local utility. Those contracts tend to be confidential, but ...

AI data centers are pushing up electricity demand and fueling higher electricity prices for U.S. households, according to energy experts. Consumers in certain areas of the country like the West and ...

For three days last December, when Kenya Brown’s youngest four kids weren’t in school, they spent their time at her oldest son’s apartment. They did their homework, charged their phones, showered and ...