Jeff Guo

Yeah.

On another spreadsheet on his computer, Ken had tracked the growth of a different number, their electric bill.

And it was really this spreadsheet I had come to see.

Every month for the last five years, Ken has recorded how much electricity he and Carol used and how much they had to pay their utility company, AEP Ohio.

Like a lot of people around the country, Ken and Carol's electricity prices, what they are paying per kilowatt hour, that has been going way up.

That's your 2020 charge, right?

In five years.

Do we know why?

Ken doesn't know, but he does have a theory.

His theory has to do with all the physical stuff that is being built to create our new AI future.

And so you, in your mind, you are making the connection between these data centers showing up and this price increase in your electricity bill.

But along with that growth has come questions about where all the electricity to run those incredibly power hungry data centers is supposed to come from.

Today on the show, data centers and electricity.

What all the AI investment might mean for all of our electricity bills.

And what, if anything, we can do about it.

Totally.

And this is honestly part of the reason I wanted to go report this story in the first place, right?

Like I wanted to actually go look at some data centers.

And Ken and Carol offered to take me on a little tour of their corner of central Ohio.

All right, so tell me the plan.