Excited to share a new preprint with Asa Watten and Geoff Blanford. Are data centers raising your electric bill? Our causal evidence says the opposite: they modestly lowered U.S. retail rates from 2015-24.
Asa's thread walks through it. Summary here: restservice.epri.com/publicattach...
🚨New preprint with @bistline.bsky.social and Geoff Blanford where we estimate the *causal* effect of data centers on avg residential electricity prices.
DCs probably didn't increase your elc bill in the past. They certainly did not on average. Implications and caveats...🧵
arxiv.org/pdf/2606.19777
