Data centers are driving up demand for power. Who pays for it? | The Story | Dec. 13, 2024

Dec. 13 on The Story: If you're a customer of Portland General Electric or Pacific Power, your rates are probably going up in 2025 — and not for the first time in the past couple of years. According to PGE, that's because of the rising costs of producing and purchasing power, plus infrastructure investments and some big weather events. But critics say a big culprit is PGE's fastest-growing customer base: high-tech industry, and data centers in particular. Power companies and state regulators admit that it's time to revisit how we handle those industrial customers. But they say that the enormous demand for power that data centers bring isn't currently big a factor in the prices that we all pay.

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