Can We Win the AI Race and Shield Consumers from Rising Power Prices?

Every week brings more news about surging power demand, rising electricity prices and the need for more dispatchable power. Political frustration with rising prices is beginning to collide with the desire to win the AI race and build the data center infrastructure needed to support this remarkable technological moment. In the latest sign of the […]

On September 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI), electricity prices, Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Manhattan Institute, Mark Mills, power demand, Wood Mackenzie

04May

The End of Flat Power Demand: Electrification, Big Data and Crypto

A new energy era is here. The shale gas glut and years of flat power demand have come to an abrupt end. Those two constants of the past decade have been replaced by soaring gas prices and the return of rising power demand driven by the data revolution and electrification. Natural gas prices are four […]

On May 4, 2022
Bloomberg, electric vehicles, electricity prices, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), energy transition, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Manhattan Institute, Mark Mills, National Renewable Energy Lab, natural gas, Texas