{"id":949103,"date":"2025-07-23T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949103"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:27:56","slug":"ai-boom-keeps-key-power-costs-at-record-on-largest-us-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/ai-boom-keeps-key-power-costs-at-record-on-largest-us-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Boom Keeps Key Power Costs at Record on Largest US Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business and households supplied by the largest US grid will pay $16.1 billion to ensure there is enough electricity supply to meet soaring power demand, including that from a massive buildout in AI data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The payouts to generators for the year starting June 2026 topped last year\u2019s record $14.7 billion, according to PJM Interconnection LLC, which operates the grid stretching from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic. That puts the capacity price per megawatt each day at $329.17 from $269.92. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business and households supplied by the largest US grid will pay $16.1 billion to ensure there is enough electricity supply to meet soaring power demand, including that from a massive buildout in AI data centers. The payouts to generators for the year starting June 2026 topped last year\u2019s record $14.7 billion, according to PJM Interconnection LLC, which operates the grid stretching from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic. That puts the capacity price per megawatt each day at $329.17 from $269.92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}