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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Indiana electricity costs rise amid data center boom

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:03.5

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0:07.3

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0:08.8

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0:13.5

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0:15.1

Hey, you have some uplifting news about electricity, and by uplifting, I mean, thoroughly depressing.

0:19.8

Go ahead, tell us. Tell us all about it.

0:20.9

We've talked about this. Electricity costs rising nationwide. Could it get even higher.

0:25.8

This, of course, because of the explosion of the data centers and powering more AI, surging power bills.

0:33.9

Way, way, way, whoa. Our budgets are getting stretched. Everything's more expensive, Rob.

0:38.6

Time out. Time out. Time out.

0:39.5

You're saying these data centers are causing electricity prices to go up.

0:44.9

What?

0:46.0

Breaking news.

0:47.6

So wait a second.

0:48.8

Yeah.

0:49.4

We're bringing these things into our communities.

0:52.6

They're gobbling up valuable farmland that's feeding a nation.

0:56.3

We're giving them special tax abatements we don't give to anyone else. And then for all of that,

1:03.3

we're not really getting employees because they, for the most part, don't employ people. We're just getting rising electric bills.

1:08.5

So the national average. Did I miss something? No, you got it. You got it. You want to keep going? No, no, I just, I feel like there must be a, you know, it's like the South Park episode with underwear in homes. Steal underwear something something profit. Like there's something in the middle that I've missed here because why would we be giving away tax incentives to people that are making stuff

1:28.3

more expensive for our people. Yeah. So the national average for a residential place,

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