Well I don't have the data in front of me, but building power capacity leads to higher capacity payments, which are passed to all consumers. This has been an gl

Well I don't have the data in front of me, but building power capacity leads to higher capacity payments, which are passed to all consumers. This has been an global industry standard for decades at far as I know. The study's authors acknowledge it in the text. > We estimate that data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly in the United States from 2015 to 2024 using an instrumental variables approach. This is a good primer on capacity payments: https://www.energyknowledgebase.com/post/capacity-payment https://www.energyknowledgebase.com/post/capacity-payment