"Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in fossil gas."

"Surging power demand from new data centers is reaching unprecedented — and potentially unrealizable — heights. 

Over the next five years, U.S. utilities expect to see new electricity demand equal to 15 times New York City’s peak load, the majority of which will come from data centers.

So finds a report released Tuesday by Grid Strategies tracking the growth in power demand for data centers being built and planned to feed tech giants’ artificial intelligence ambitions. The consultancy’s tally of utility load forecasts indicates that peak grid demand will boom to 166 gigawatts by 2030, a sixfold increase from what was forecast three years ago."

Jeff St. John reports for Canary Media November 18, 2025. [2]