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Data centers drove $6.3B in PJM capacity auction costs: market monitor
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Data centres accounted for nearly $6.3 billion of the $63.6 billion in total capacity charges across PJM's last four auctions, according to market monitor Monitoring Analytics. The finding highlights how AI and cloud infrastructure demand is reshaping grid procurement costs and capacity market design.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure and AI Infrastructure.
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If you're building a data centre in the PJM region, you now know that capacity costs—not energy—are eating half the grid's auction budget, and regulators are watching. That pricing pressure will either get passed to you or trigger demand-side rules that force you to shift when you consume power.
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