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Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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I wonder how many data centres have contracts for fixed or predictable pricing agreements
Most do. Some even trade sort of electricity contracts to earn money. It is a wierd buisness.
There are dozens that have their new energy infrastructure costs and even their power usage shared among all the residents of that utility district. They're hard to find out about because the contracts are often secretive -- can't imagine why -- but this was going on for a while before people started to put up a stink about data centers.
This is a good article from about a year ago, and Benn Jordan has also talked about it on his channel, among others.