--- title: AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s... description: AI data centres proliferating across the PJM grid's 13-state region are driving sharp electricity cost increases for Rust Belt manufacturers. Capacity charges... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-data-centres-are-driving-up-power-bills-at-america-s-rust-belt-factories-z7jzcthtw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories | daily.dev og:description: AI data centres proliferating across the PJM grid's 13-state region are driving sharp electricity cost increases for Rust Belt manufacturers. Capacity charges... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-data-centres-are-driving-up-power-bills-at-america-s-rust-belt-factories-z7jzcthtw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z7jZCthtW.png og:image:alt: AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI data centres proliferating across the PJM grid's 13-state region are driving sharp electricity cost increases for Rust Belt manufacturers. Capacity charges on the PJM grid surged over 1,000% — from $28.92 to $329.17 per megawatt-day — as data centres accounted for roughly 40% of a record $16.4 billion auction cost. Industrial electricity prices in Pennsylvania and Ohio rose 31% and 26% respectively, far outpacing the 7% national average. Manufacturers like Belden Brick saw monthly capacity charges jump from $1,600 to $12,000, while others are exploring on-site gas generation or off-peak production shifts. The grid cannot keep pace with data centre construction, and regulatory battles over who bears the cost are ongoing, creating political tension as the AI build-out conflicts with domestic manufacturing revival goals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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