Mark Chediak

The rapid development of data centers connected to the largest US electric grid raised costs by $9.4 billion, an expense that consumers from Illinois to Washington, D.C., will soon see reflected in their utility bills. Overall costs rose by 180 percent, with the growing energy needs of data centers being the primary cause of tight supply-and-demand conditions, as well as high prices, in the PJM Interconnection capacity market, which serves customers from Illinois to Washington D.C., according to a report bby Monitoring Analytics, the grid’s independent market monitor. The analysis from PJM’