Most Americans expect data centers to raise power bills

Large majorities of Americans of all political views and most perspectives on climate change anticipate that a data center in their community would increase their power bills.

Full sample margin of error +/- 3 percentage points. The question was “If a data center opened in your local area, what effect do you think it would have on your electricity bills?”
Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-NDSource: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication; George Mason University Center for Climate Change CommunicationGet the data Download image