For more than a century, electricity demand in the United States grew in broadly steady and predictable patterns, punctuated by long plateaus. That era has ended. After nearly two decades of essentially flat consumption, the American power system is entering a period of demand expansion whose pace may rival the build-out of the mid-twentieth century. Three forces are driving this shift at once: the proliferation of artificial-intelligence data centers, the reshoring of domestic manufacturing, and a quieter but ultimately more structural transformation known as industrial electrification. This white paper focuses on that third force and its consequences for the grid.

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