Data Centers Drive Record Costs in PJM Power Capacity Auctions
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Data centers accounted for 40% of the costs in PJM's December capacity auction, with $6.2 billion attributed to future data centers that may come online by 2027/28.
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Market impact analysis based on bearish sentiment with 80% confidence.
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Data center load accounted for $6.5 billion, or 40%, of the $16.4 billion in costs from the PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction, according to the grid operator’s independent market monitor. About $6.2 billion of those costs is related to data centers that haven’t been built but could come online by PJM’s 2027/28 delivery year that begins on June 1, 2027, Monitoring Analytics, the market monitor, said in a report released Monday. In PJM’s last three base capacity auctions, costs related to data center…
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Original article published by OilPrice.com on January 8, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.