New Causal Evidence Finds Datacenter Growth Lowered US Residential Power Prices, as New York Freezes Construction on the Opposite Premise

A new EPRI causal study finds that datacenter load growth lowered average US residential electricity prices, and Texas, which has more large load queued for its grid than any other state, is best positioned to benefit because its operators already fund their own transmission and generation. The finding landed the same week New York became the first state to freeze large datacenter construction on the opposite assumption.