Washington's latest outlook pulls the growth path for U.S. electricity sales lower, with total sales expected to be 1.8% higher in 2027 than this year.
The audit requirement has effectively halted new data center buildouts while the state's grid operator weighs about 474 gigawatts of connection requests. For context, one gigawatt is comparable to what a conventional nuclear reactor produces, and the current queue is more than five times Texas's record peak demand.
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Even with the cooler forecast, U.S. power use is still headed for all-time highs, with data centers and manufacturing doing much of the heavy lifting. Texas and its neighboring states in the West South Central division are on track to post the largest increases, accounting for almost 20% of U.S. electricity sales expansion this year and close to 40% in 2027. If you live or run a business in that corridor, stronger local demand can ripple into utility bills, grid upgrades, and where new factories or server farms choose to set up.
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