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What's really behind your soaring utility bills

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published December 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM CST

Power-hungry data centers are partly to blame for rising electricity prices, but for the utility sector, greater energy demand also means greater profits.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with freelance journalist Nick Bowlin.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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