Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75%(theregister.com)
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Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75%
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/15/datacenters-slurping-juice-help-drive-75-jump-in-pjm-power-prices/5241491
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Under the premise of low taxes and Itaipú's great energy generation, Paraguay has an open and political interest in bringing data centers and AI centers to the country looking for capital injection to the economy, but with very poor infrastructure and grid base development to face this. Just looking at recent studies and articles about what consuming energy is doing to the grid in the US, it raises the question of how we can prevent this from happening here.
The AI "tax" --- elevated energy prices.