The $14.7 Billion Electricity Shock: Why Companies Are Paying 500% More to Move Data Nobody Reads
A Fortune 500 company discovered they were spending $8.3 million annually on data center electricity—not for analytics, insights, or reporting, but simply to store and transmit raw datasets that 97% of recipients never opened. Meanwhile, residential electricity prices jumped 7.4% nationally in 2025, with wholesale costs near data centers surging 267% over five years. The culprit? An enterprise obsession with moving massive files when a single chart would suffice.
Tony DiLoreto
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