Monday, December 01, 2025

Electricity Is the New Price of Eggs

Last year, the price of eggs was a hot item for many people in the election. Now, the villain seems to be shifting. The new culprit is the price of electricity, which keeps going up and up. Many people believe it is due to the AI data centers, which are slurping up every watt they can find, causing shortages and driving prices up.

Posted by A_Friend at 11:33 AM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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Trump promised to lower costs on day one -- even saying that electricity prices would be "cut in half" within 12 months. He lied. Electricity costs have skyrocketed in nearly every state, including right here in WA.

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-- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (@jayapal.house.gov) Nov 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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People don't like this. There was a lot of reporting that on Election Day this year that Democrats flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, but there was little reporting about why. Everyone was too excited about Democrats winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia by large margins and Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor of NYC. But The New York Times was curious about the Georgia PSC elections and sent a reporter down there to talk to the voters about them. Here is what he found.

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-01 09:57 AM

I think that there's plenty of room to be outraged about the price of electricity and eggs.

Hamburger, too.

I wonder if Trump plans to release any more economic data between now and next November?

Nah.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-01 10:25 AM

"[Iowa] gets nearly two-thirds of its electricity from wind turbines. The Republican stronghold gets more of its electricity from wind than any other state. Despite Trump's and Wright's claims that wind power makes electricity more expensive and unreliable, Iowa's power costs are among the lowest in the nation and its grid is among the most stable."

Josh Siegel

#3 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-12-01 01:24 PM

We are paying more for electricity to train the AI models that will take our jobs.

This is like being mugged for your lunch and then offering your wallet as well.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-12-01 01:30 PM

"AI is going to make everyone wealthy." - the handful of people that AI is making wealthy

#5 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-12-01 02:33 PM

Eggs became an issue because of the way our politics works.

MAGA morons started it and acted like the outbreak and subsequent control measures for avian influenza didn't have a role in the price spike and that it was all Biden and only Biden causing it.

Then, when Trump got elected and egg prices miraculously stayed high, suddenly they were chirping about bird flu. Sooooo the rest of us rightfully kicked it back in their faces.

Electricity, however, has been a longstanding issue (at least in my state) with year after year price hikes always justified with infrastructure upgrades and repairs that never seemed to happen. Likely because the board that approves the rate hikes is nothing but a rubber stamp. Same with natural gas.

It's a genuine problem that hasn't gotten nearly enough air time until this past year when Trump forced it into the open by tanking green energy subsidies and causing utility companies to jack rates and fees in response.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-01 02:51 PM

"AI is going to make everyone wealthy."

You've got to listen closely, to hear the muttered part in the middle:

"AI is going to make everyone (in my family) wealthy."

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-01 03:46 PM

#6

Egg prices went nuts because the response to bird flu was "kill all the chickens" instead of "vaccinate all the chickens". Other countries have been vaccinating chickens for years, and it works. The USDA is run by idiots, but it's ALWAYS been run by idiots.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-02 09:37 AM

I don't disagree.

However, other countries also went through waves of poultry flock culling to try and mitigate avian influenza. They're still doing it even now.

www.thepoultrysite.com

I would also point out that we're in a country where people are increasingly averse to any vaccine or pharma intervention, saying things as stupid as "I don't want mRNA in my meat!"

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-02 03:04 PM

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