AI centers can lower power prices

Large AI data centers, by signing long‑term clean‑power deals, shifting compute to low‑cost hours, and providing demand flexibility and ancillary services, can increase grid utilization and reduce marginal electricity prices rather than uniformly raising them. This flips the usual narrative that data center growth automatically worsens local electricity costs and suggests a role for procurement‑driven decarbonization. — If true, the claim should reshape debates over data‑center siting, permitting, grid investments, and who pays for new transmission and generation capacity.