Laila Kearney & Seher Dareen, "US utilities grapple with Big Tech's massive power demands for data centers" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-utilities-grapple-with-big-techs-massive-power-demands-data-centers-2025-04-07/

Demands have risen sharply, sometimes exceeding the total generation capacitiy of electric utilities. But for the utilities forcasts are difficult to make because

• data center customers have placed simultanous orders with different utilities in the same area
• the Trump tariffs make construction costs of new facilities unpredictable
• it is unclear how electricity consumptive AI is really going to get.

Thus building too little capacity may risk brownouts (not "blackouts" as the article states) while building too much may increase prices for consumers and housholds.

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