Episode
AI Is Now on Your Power Bill
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- Jul 3, 2026
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- 486
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Summary
The AI stories that get headlines are about models and jobs. The one that hits your P&L first is physical: the buildout ran out of the one thing money can't instantly buy — electricity. The bill is landing: Henrico County, Virginia saw power rates jump 25% overnight because of 37 data centers, with schools asked to conserve — a $5M budget hit. Megawatts, not money: Brookfield 5x'd its Bloom Energy power deal to $25B and National Grid put $1.75B into a dedicated gas plant for a Microsoft AI campus — both routing around a grid with 5-year connection queues. JPMorgan pegs AI capex at $5.5T. The squeeze: memory prices are up 700%, with high-end supply sold out into 2028. In our 100th episode, host Stephen Forte on why the constraint shifted from money to megawatts — and three moves: audit your utility contract, treat interconnection queues as your real expansion timeline, and pull hardware refreshes forward. Sources: Henrico Citizen; Bloom Energy; National Grid; JPMorgan/Fortune; Tom's Hardware.