Your bill went up.
Was it the data centres?
Sometimes, in some places — and almost never the way the headlines say. Data centre demand reaches households through capacity and grid costs, not through the price of electricity itself. There is also serious evidence pointing the other way, which most pages quietly drop. This site keeps both, with dates and sources, and gives you two tools that use only the numbers you type.
Two judgements, both sides shown
| Question | Verdict in one line | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Is AI raising your electricity bill? | In some places yes — via capacity and grid costs, not the energy price | PJM 2026/2027 auction at a record $329.17/MW-day; EIA outlook; EPRI's opposite finding shown alongside |
| Who decides whether data centres raise your rate? | A regulator, in a proceeding that takes public comment | Capacity markets, large-load tariffs, connection charges, rate cases — US and EU |
Two tools, no outside data
Bill decomposer
Two bills in, and the change splits cleanly into rate effect, usage effect and the part where both moved. Pure arithmetic — no national averages, no assumptions, nothing uploaded.
Open →Which rules apply
Eight questions, and it names the mechanisms that can put data centre cost on your bill — plus the exact filing to search for and where comment is open.
Check →What we will not print
No "$X added to your bill" figure for a national audience — that number depends on your utility and your tariff, and anyone quoting it generally is guessing. No statistic we cannot attribute to the body that produced it. No energy supplier, tariff-switching or solar recommendations, and no affiliate links. Every source we do use →
The AGI-2027 Thesis Tracker — our parent site scores the "AGI by 2027" predictions against evidence, including the capital expenditure that puts these loads on the grid. It is upstream of this site: the build-out is the reason this question exists at all.
Reading as of 2026-09-06; the parent site is authoritative. agiscorecard.com/progress-index · the capex question · German-language energy saving: getecoback