Media hype driven by a campaign has more than half of Americans strongly opposed to data centers being built near their homes, and almost as many Americans are blaming rising electricity prices on them.

IER has shown that the relationship between data centers and rising electricity prices is statistically insignificant.

While there are cases where electricity prices can be lowered through data center grid usage, as costs are spread across more consumers, most policymakers favor data center developers buying power from third parties or building their own power sources next to their data centers.