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Artificial Intelligence and data centers have been blamed for rising electricity costs across the U.S. In December 2025, American consumers paid 42% more to power their homes than ten years ago.
“When you have increased demand and inadequate supply, costs are going to go up. And that’s what we’re experiencing right now,” Exelon CEO Calvin Butler said.
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In 2024, U.S. data centers used more than 4% of total U.S. electricity consumption according to the International Energy Agency. That equates to as much electricity as the entire nation of Pakistan uses annually. U.S. Data Center consumption is expected to grow by 133% by the end of the decade, using as much power as the entire country of France.
“We’re headquartered in Chicago, and we’re the owner of ComEd, the fourth-largest utility in the nation. ComEd’s peak load is roughly 23 gigawatts. We have had data center load come onto the system, but by 2030, we’ll be at 19 Gigawatts,” Butler said.
Artifical intelligence data centers in the U.S. used more than 4% of the total U.S. electricity consumption, according to the International Energy Agency. (Exelon)
Commonwealth Edison has experienced a dramatic increase in data center connection requests. The potential projects total more than 30 gigawatts and are expected to come online between now an 2045.
“Our growth is unprecedented in the last several decades. So, with the data center advent and the technology coming, we’ve been forced to serve that load, which is our responsibility,” Butler said. “But what we also have to do is build new generation supply, which is not keeping up with the load that is coming on. And that’s the crunch that we’re in right now.”
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Commonwealth Edison is asking regulators for a $15.3 billion 4-year grid update to meet the growing demand. The U.S. overall has increased its grid capacity by more than 15% over the last decade, but many utility companies and energy producers say it is not enough.
“We’re at a stage right now where we’re constrained by electricity,” Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard said. “You want to make power plants that can make a lot of power in a small package that you can put anywhere, that you could run at any time and fusion fits that bill.”
Zanskar, is the first AI-native geothermal energy company, according to their website. This plant is located in New Mexico. (Zanskar)
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is working to add a new form of nuclear energy to the grid — fusion. It has the same reliable benefits of standard nuclear energy already in use, but does not produce long-lived radioactive waste and carries fewer risks.
“In fusion there’s no chain reaction. The result is helium which is safe and inert and you don’t use it to make anything related to weapons,” Mumgaard said.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems says Artificial Intelligence is helping bring fusion energy closer to being a new resource.
“Building and designing these complex machines and manipulating this complex data matter of plasma are all things that we’re still learning and we’re still figuring out how to do,” Mumgaard said. “And that’s an area where we’ve been able to accelerate using A.I.”
Other under-utilized energy sources could soon get a big boost thanks to A.I. Geothermal energy is a small part of the electric grid, because of the high drilling costs and low confidence in where to place infrastructure.
Geothermal and nuclear fusion technology will allow energy to be produced in any weather at any time. (AP)
“If you could drill the perfect geothermal well every single time, like you pick the right spot, you design the right well, you drill the 5,000, 8,000 feet, you hit 400F degree temperatures, that’s incredibly productive,” Zanskar Co-founder Joel Edwards said. “If you could do that every single time over and over and again, geothermal power is the cheapest source of power period.”
Zanskar is working to make the geothermal search more exact. The company uses A.I.-fueled mapping to find untapped resources previously thought non-existent.
“If we could just get more precise in where we go to find the things and then how we drill into the things, geothermal absolutely has the cost curve to come down,” Edwards said. “And that’s sort of what we’re running towards, with A.I. sort of giving us the boost, giving us an edge to do that.”
Both geothermal and nuclear fusion can produce energy in any weather at any time, a component that could have helped ease the grid strain amid the recent winter storm.
“It’s critical, and we’ve been raising that alarm for years now, and I use the analogy that you’re driving a car and your check engine light is on, but you keep driving it, hoping that you’ll keep getting there and keep going, but when it breaks down, you’re going to have a significantly higher cost,” Butler said. “We have to pay attention to what’s going on, and this winter storm – Winter Storm Fern – is indicative of what’s coming.”
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IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:
– Palantir’s Shyam Sankar: Americans are ‘being lied to’ about AI job displacement fears
– OPINION: Elon Musk says you can skip retirement savings in the age of AI. Not so fast
– Chevron CEO details strategy to shield consumers from soaring AI power costs
LIES EXPOSED: “The American people are being lied to about AI,” Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar warns in the opening line of his new Fox News op-ed. And one of the biggest lies, he said, is that artificial intelligence is coming for Americans’ jobs.
Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the Hill & Valley forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
RISKY RETIREMENT: Billionaire Elon Musk recently told people not to worry about “squirreling” money away for retirement because advances in artificial intelligence would supposedly make savings irrelevant in the next 10 to 20 years.
OFF-THE-GRID: Chevron CEO Mike Wirth detailed the company’s strategy to harness U.S. natural resources to meet soaring artificial intelligence power demand — without passing the cost along to consumers.
The COL4 AI-ready data center is located on a seven-acre campus at the convergence point of long-haul fiber and regional carrier fiber networks on July 24, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (Eli Hiller/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
POWER CRISIS NOW: Artificial Intelligence and data centers have been blamed for rising electricity costs across the U.S. In December 2025, American consumers paid 42% more to power their homes than ten years ago.
LATEST POLLING: As the emphasis on implementing artificial intelligence across society grows, voters think the use of AI technology is happening too fast — and they have little confidence the federal government can regulate it properly.
PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: A popular mobile app called Chat & Ask AI has more than 50 million users across the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Now, an independent security researcher says the app exposed hundreds of millions of private chatbot conversations online.
CAP-EX SURGE: Alphabet executives struck a confident tone on Wednesday’s post-earnings call, signaling that Google’s heavy investments in artificial intelligence are now translating into real revenue growth across the business.
Google Headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, on May 15, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
MERIT OVER FEAR: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer and executive vice president of Palantir Technologies, told Fox News Digital that artificial intelligence will be a “massively meritocratic force” within the workplace and offered advice to corporate leaders on how to best position their companies and employees for success.
FAKE LOVE HEIST: A woman named Abigail believed she was in a romantic relationship with a famous actor. The messages felt real. The voice sounded right. The video looked authentic. And the love felt personal. By the time her family realized what was happening, more than $81,000 was gone — and so was the paid-off home she planned to retire in.
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After introducing AirDrop support to Pixel 10 devices last year, Google is now set to expand it to phones made by other Android partners. Eric Kay, vice president of engineering for Android, confirmed in a press briefing attended by Android Authority that “a lot more” Android devices will be able to use Quick Share to initiate AirDrop sessions with Apple devices this year.
“We spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we could build something that was compatible not only with iPhone but iPads and MacBooks,” Kay said. “Now that we’ve proven it out, we’re working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem, and you should see some exciting announcements coming very soon.”
Currently, Google’s Pixel 10 phones are the only Android devices that can use Quick Share — Android’s own wireless peer-to-peer transfer feature, previously known as Nearby Share — to communicate directly with Apple’s AirDrop. Google hasn’t outlined any specific Android partners or devices for the update yet, but both Nothing and chipmaker Qualcomm teased in November that support was coming.
Kay also discussed Google’s efforts to improve the process for iOS users who switch to Android, helping to prevent incomplete data transfers, lost messages, and other issues. Apple has been working on a “user-friendly” way of transferring data from iPhones to other devices since early 2024, and Google and Apple’s collaborative efforts were seen being tested in Android Canary 2512 for Pixel devices in December.
“We’re also going to be working to make it easy for people who do decide to switch to transfer their data and make sure they’ve got everything they had from their old phone,” Kay said during the same briefing. “So there’s a lot more going on with that.”
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