My electricity bill went from $120 to $218 a month in two months. Nothing changed in my house. Heard it's partly because of all the new AI data centers in our region drawing massive power. Are we all just supposed to absorb this cost so tech companies can run their models?

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1. This is the data center load problem and it's real. Phoenix specifically added something like 3 GW of planned data center capacity in the last 18 months. APS passed the costs directly to residential ratepayers.

   Anonymous Mantis, Jun 15, 2026

2. Same increase here. Wild how quietly this got normalized.

   Anonymous Kite, Sep 8, 2026