Soaring electricity costs are burdening US consumers and stirring voter anger. The rapid buildout of artificial intelligence data centers, tariffs and upgrades to the aging grid have raised power prices to rates unseen in decades. The US-Israel war with Iran also has thrown global energy markets into upheaval, adding a surge in gasoline prices to affordability concerns.
These energy strains have propelled the once-mundane utility bill to the center of American politics. In the US, where narrow margins in a few swing districts can tip the balance of power in Washington, even modest changes in voter sentiment could have a profound effect. Pennsylvania’s Seventh District, a mix of rolling mountains and former manufacturing strongholds clustered along the Lehigh River, will be a proving ground for the issue’s importance.
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