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The article dismisses everything without sourcing anything.

US electricity is 40% more expensive since 2022 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

Some AI datacenters can indeed be heard a mile away https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/datacenters-...

Amazon's new Texas AI data center could become the biggest CO2 polluter in the US https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazons-new-texas-ai-data-cent...

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FYI - EIA has analysis on the energy increase - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65284

Relative to data center growth, the correlation doesn't match - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/monthly-spending-data-cen...

More analysis here - https://www.wri.org/insights/whats-driving-us-electricity-pr...

But TL;DR - sounds like in the northeast / PJM it's load increases, in North Dakota increased load is causing drops in prices, California it's mostly from wildfire mitigation + insurance, natural gas oscillating across the US is causing price changes as well.

Thank you, your comment was more informative than the economist article

The gas generators can be heard a mile away… protest gas generators?

They are using them to skirt the law

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