11+ GW per year could be required by 2029 just for GPUs

S&P continues to forecast rapid electricity demand growth for data centers. How can the current electricity sector keep pace? It can't. That's why we are urging states to adopt their own "Consumer Regulated Electricity" (CRE) policy. CRE would allow private investors to build new, independent, competitive, and large-scale utilities to focus on the data center growth. Since these CRE utilities are new and independent, they'll be able to custom design for data centers. Since these CRE utilities are competitive, they'll find ways of doing things faster, cheaper, better, and innovative in ways that simply aren't possible in the current sector. Since these CRE utilities would be allowed to grow large, they will bring the large scale benefits that only exist in utilities today. And since these CRE utilities will draw some of the data centers that are currently trying to add to challenges faced by the regulated utilities, ratepayers of the regulated utilities will benefit by minimizing the cost and reliability risks of rapid growth. To learn more about CRE, send us a message here on LinkedIn, follow us here as well, and check out our website at Advocates4CRE.org.

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