EXCLUSIVE: Administration Fires Back After Democrats Blame Trump for ‘Soaring Electricity’ Costs  

The Trump administration is firing back after a group of Senate Democrats accused President Donald Trump of being responsible for “soaring electricity bills” and “failure” to prevent “consumers from being forced to subsidize the cost of data centers.”  

“Democrats’ baseless claims serve only to distract from this administration’s proven record of making energy more affordable for Americans,” a Trump administration official told The Daily Signal.  

“For four years, they pushed unsustainable, costly policies rather than leveraging our nation’s vast natural resources to unleash energy dominance and secure affordable, reliable power,” the official said.  

The retort comes after Democrat Senators Richard Blumenthal, Conn., Edward Markey, Mass., Chris Van Hollen, Md., Ron Wyden, Ore., and Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., sent a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios and Secretary of the Department of Commerce Howard Lutnick alleging that the increase in data centers in the U.S. is causing higher energy prices.  

“Since his second inauguration, President Trump has cozied up to Meta, Google, Oracle, OpenAI, and other Big Tech companies, fast-tracking and pushing for the build out of power-hungry data centers across the country,” the senators wrote in the letter that was first reported by Fed Scoop.  

“The power demands of these new data centers are staggering and unprecedented,” the senators continued, giving the example of Meta’s new data centers that “will consume up to 5 gigawatts each: the equivalent to nearly four million homes.”  

Data Centers

A data center is a physical facility that houses a company’s technology infrastructure, including servers and digital storage systems.  

Meta, the platform that owns Facebook and Instagram, has begun construction of a $1 billion AI data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, GuruFocus reported Thursday. Meta has 26 data centers in the U.S., which employ over 5,000 people. Construction is also underway on new data centers in Ohio and Texas, according to Meta.  

Meta reports to have broken ground on 10 new data centers during the four years of the Biden administration.  

“National power consumption from data centers is projected to rise from around 5% to 12% within three years and adding to fears of more blackouts on burdened grids,” the senators wrote in the letter to the Trump administration.  

Electric power costs have seen a rise in the U.S. from an average of 12.94 in 2024 to 13.59 in 2025, U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in August.  

Democrats vs. Trump Administration

While Democrats point to the “Trump Administration’s sweetheart deals with Big Tech companies” and “the administration’s reckless abandonment and assault on new, clean energy sources,” the Trump administration is laying the blame at the feet of President Joe Biden.  

“The Democrats are attempting to blame data centers for the rise in energy prices when in reality Biden’s reckless rush to unreliable green energy solutions is the true cause,” an administration official told The Daily Signal.  

The claims Democrats are making “lack scientific backing,” according to the official. “Ironically, the outcomes they blame this administration for were actually created by a partisan green energy push that lined the pockets of Democrat donors and allies.”  

Pointing to the “clean energy” policies in the Biden administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the Trump administration official argues the acts weakened the U.S. energy supply by increasing demand on the energy supply and simultaneously placing a great focus on “unreliable, ‘clean energy’ fuel sources.” 

The Democrat senators have given the Trump administration until Nov. 21 to respond to six specific questions related to addressing rising energy costs and the Trump administration’s relationship with the tech companies who are building more data centers in the U.S. 

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