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Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand (www.bloomberg.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

California pays 19 dollars per kilowatt hour.

I think that you might be thinking cents, not dollars.

Typical residential electricity prices in the US are two digits number of cents per kWh.

Also, I'm pretty sure that California's residential average price in 2025 is above $0.19/kWh. Maybe that's the cost of generation alone or something.

EDIT: This has PG&E's residential pricing at about twice that, unless someone's getting low-income assistance.

https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/alternate-energy-providers/pce-sm_rateclasscomparison.pdf

They list their cost of generation there as being about $0.14/kWh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Exactly. I have family in CA, WA, and I live in Utah, which is quite the gamut when it comes to electrical generation. CA is by far the most expensive, followed by UT (we're pretty average), followed by WA (cheap due to tons of hydro). CA is expensive because their electricity policies are stupid IMO, UT is cheap because we're somewhat reasonable (too much fossil fuels, but competitive renewables), and WA is cheap because they have more water than they know what to do with (ironically though, their water prices are higher than ours).

I don't know much about Texas, but I imagine it's similar to how things are here in UT, it just scales better since they have ~10x the population.