Summer always increases electricity bills, as more people use electricity for air conditioning. But there’s another issue popping up this year: Not AC, but AI.

Households are now competing against power-hungry computer data centers from the likes of Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft put strain on the grid to power new artificial intelligence projects.

Add in the fact that New York and New Jersey have both shut down nuclear power and pursued expensive green mandates, and customers are seeing a big strain on their wallets.

“It went from $174 in June to more than $300 in July, I was floored,” Clark, New Jersey mother-of-two Lisa Marinez, told The Post. 6

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Marinez had been told to expect an increase of only 17% from her provider, New Jersey’s Public Service Electric & Gas.

“My

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