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North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand “thanks in part to an explosion of data centers,” reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates.
“A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle suggests that, counterintuitively, more electricity demand can actually lower prices…”
Between 2019 and 2024, the researchers calculated, states with spikes in electricity…
