Datacenters And Electricity Costs By The Numbers (From RealClearEnergy)

While there is a push by some politicians of both parties to singularly blame, and in some cases scapegoat, datacenters for rising electricity prices, data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) tells a much different story.

EIA’s most recent Electric Power Monthly on January 26 found that the nationwide average cost of residential electricity was 17.78 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for the month of November 2025. That is up 5.5% from a year ago. It exceeds the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for that period, continuing a disturbing trend that began in 2021, long before the datacenter boom took off.

If datacenters are the singular reason for high electricity prices, then the states with the most of them should be in dire straits, pricewise. They are not.

Paul Steidler discusses this further in an Op-Ed for RealClearEnergy at the link here.