Henry Epp
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first heard Jul 2026
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which is driving up costs for everyone.
To go back to that party analogy, say the party's underway and your guests have eaten most of the food, but then another group of your friends shows up.
They're hungry, so you have to go out and buy extra food for them, and all of your guests end up paying more.
This is what utilities and policymakers are now grappling with as more data centers push up electricity demand.
One way regulators are trying to handle this?
By charging data centers a higher rate for electricity.
Again, Robin Milliken at Columbia.
Essentially, state regulators are setting a different class of rates for data centers to have them bear the costs of things like new transmission lines, new substations that are required in order to serve their new demand.
Historically, she says, big industrial customers have gotten lower electric rates to incentivize economic growth.
But in many regions, that policy might not make sense anymore.
I'm Henry Epp for Marketplace.
Yeah, we're definitely seeing that.
Greyhound and Flixbus saw a pretty substantial uptick in demand when Spirit Airlines went under at the beginning of May.
So just kind of one indication.
And then I've talked to passengers who said, you know, they are taking the bus instead of flying because of cost and other concerns.
Correct.
You're exactly right.
Folks are going to replace flights with buses when it is kind of that medium distance, just a few hundred miles, any longer than that.
And you're talking about multiple days on the bus, which I don't think many people can stomach.
How much cheaper are we talking here?
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