Energy experts gathered in Raleigh this week for the annual Making Energy Work Conference, hosted by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association.
“The biggest thing right now, everybody — Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina — everyone’s chasing data centers. And particularly data centers to support AI,” said Neil Chatterjee, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Data centers can provide a big boost to local tax revenue, but at the cost of higher power bills. They’re also one of the main reasons Duke Energy forecasts energy demand soaring at an unprecedented rate…