How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust

Homes near a data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesData centers that haven't been built yet are driving up electricity prices and could leave consumers on the hook for expensive power infrastructure if demand projections are wrong.The race to build facilities that provide artificial intelligence has fueled a boom in data centers that train and run large language models, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, upending a utility industry tha ...