Data centers and Entergy customers

Data centers and Entergy

Powering your connected world — responsibly

When large customers like data centers connect to Entergy’s grid, they pay a big share of the grid upgrades and maintenance costs that small businesses and residents would otherwise have to pay for by themselves, helping lower power bills for everyone.

Bringing big benefits to our communities

We are powering major data center projects that will deliver $7 billion in savings to 2.3 million Entergy customers over the next two decades in the states where they’re located — Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most notably in these four areas:

High-tech partners = Lower cost power
Infrastructure improvements that benefit all customers
New jobs and economic opportunities for our states
Increased community investment and charitable giving

When large data centers move to Entergy’s service area, all customers that are connected to the grid benefit. In fact, every new large customer added to the system helps pick up more of the grid maintenance improvement costs that existing customers would otherwise have to bear alone, and at a larger share than residential and small business customers.

How adding new large customers to the grid helps keep your bill lower

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What they’re saying

“Contrary to concerns that new data centers drive up consumers’ electricity rates, recent evidence suggests they’ve had the opposite effect, helping to lower rates.”

Daily Energy InsiderRead the news story

“The AI future can seem mysterious and foreboding, and the issues surrounding it, therefore, can seem alien. The logistical trade-offs of building new data centers are, by contrast, very familiar. They are the same challenges that have always faced big industrial projects, and are amenable to the same kinds of solutions. Data centers will make sense in some communities and not in others. The best question to ask may not be whether to build, but where and how.”

The AtlanticRead the news story

“As data centers drive surging energy demand, the real question isn’t whether data centers are good or bad — it’s whether they’re planned responsibly . . .There is a way to have growth and protect customers. Smart development, not stopped development, is the answer.”

Power for TomorrowX

“Newly published research finds no meaningful link between the number of data centers in a state and its electricity prices and points instead to a far less glamorous culprit: bad state energy policy.”

The Daily EconomyRead the news story

“When people say, ‘AI is going to drive up my price of electricity,’ it’s actually the opposite,” Wright said. “The way to get electricity prices down is to produce more electricity.”

Chris WrightU.S. Department of Energy Secretary–The Wall Street Journal

“The hyperscalers are telling their shareholders and telling Wall Street every quarter that they need to spend more, build more, build more compute, and that’s how we win this thing. And we, as an administration, and the states, and the utilities, like Southern Company and Entergy in Louisiana, are doing a great job meeting that demand. The demand is there from our incredibly innovative technology sector. And we’re doing everything possible to set the stage for their success, and companies like Entergy and Southern Company are rising to meet that challenge.”

Peter LakeSenior Director of Power, National Energy Dominance Council–Axios Live: Electricity in Transition: Strengthening the Grid for What’s Next

“Although it sounds counterintuitive, when a big new electricity customer shows up on the grid, it can sometimes help keep power costs down for everyone else, because it buys so much power that it can cover much more of the system’s costs, keeping a lid on rising power rates.”

Robinson MeyerContributor–The New York Times

“Louisiana has been a national model for showing that data center projects can be structured in a way that not only protects the power reliability of existing customers on the power grid, but provides them with real savings, too.”

Jeff LandryGovernor, State of Louisiana–X

“Today, we are in a global race to secure leadership in the emerging industries of the future – and one of the most critical ingredients in this race is energy. A top priority of mine will be continuing to bring more available, affordable and reliable energy to our state. Entergy’s massive $1.2 billion investment will help us further solidify Mississippi as a leader in American energy production.”

Tate ReevesGovernor, State of Mississippi–at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Vicksburg Advanced Power Station

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Little Rock Regional Chamber, Entergy Arkansas, Central Arkansas Water, and Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority announce resource site for data center facts

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Read the press release from the White House that quotes Entergy Chair and CEO Drew Marsh