Tesla Powerwalls just acted like a 500+ MW power plant.....without Tesla building a new power plant Around 69,000 Powerwall owners across California simultaneously sent more than 500 MW back to the grid during the heatwave this is now a single giant battery facility Thousands of batteries already sitting inside people’s homes, coordinated by Tesla software and acting together like one massive distributed power station When electricity demand spikes, Powerwalls can discharge instantly and help stabilize the grid This is where Tesla Energy becomes much bigger than selling batteries Hardware distributed everywhere Software coordinating everything 69,000 homes just acted as grid infrastructure

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US Electricity Prices Are ‘Skyrocketing,’ Says Kobeissi Letter as AI Boom Drives Demand, Marjorie Taylor Greene Questions AI Companies’ Promises of Thousands in ‘Free’ Monthly Payments.

US electricity prices are skyrocketing. The average price of US residential electricity has risen +11% since January 2025, to 19.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, near an all-time high. Average prices during the first 8 months of 2026 were +40% higher than in the same period of 2019. The largest increase in residential electricity prices over this period was in Maine, at +90%, followed by California and New York, at nearly +70%. This comes as the AI boom is intensifying electricity demand, with data centers requiring enormous amounts of electricity to power thousands of chips and cooling systems. A 1-gigawatt data center can consume as much electricity as 800,000 homes. As a result, wholesale electricity prices in areas near significant data center activity surged by as much as +267% between 2020 and 2025. The AI revolution is driving a surge in electricity demand, and households are increasingly feeling the cost.