# WattSaid™ by Starfind AI

> WattSaid™ by Starfind AI is a free board of live numbers on AI and the power behind it: US grid demand and its fuel mix, power prices, onsite (behind-the-meter) generation, data center power and spending, GPU prices, gas and LNG, China and the US side by side, and how much AI topics are talked about. Hourly numbers are refreshed every hour, the others every day. No account needed.

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# Numbers now (updated 2026-10-20T04:12:56+00:00, times in UTC)

## Buzz

- AI: Hacker News stories: 137 stories in 24 hours (+61.2% against the 24 hours before; as of 2026-10-20T05:17Z)
- AI agents: Hacker News stories: 23 stories in 24 hours (+7 against the 24 hours before; as of 2026-10-20T05:17Z)
- GPUs: Hacker News stories: 7 stories in 24 hours (+3 against the 24 hours before; as of 2026-10-20T05:17Z)
- Data centers: Hacker News stories: 9 stories in 24 hours (+3 against the 24 hours before; as of 2026-10-20T05:17Z)
- Stories about these topics on the Hacker News front page: 1 of 30 (as of 2026-10-20T05:17Z)
- AI: New GitHub repositories: 17,926 repositories a day (+17.8% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- AI agents: New GitHub repositories: 3,841 repositories a day (+73% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- GPUs: New GitHub repositories: 463 repositories a day (+32.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- Data centers: New GitHub repositories: 39 repositories a day (-9.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- AI: New arXiv papers: 268 papers a day (+14% against the week before; as of 2026-10-14)
- AI agents: New arXiv papers: 191 papers a day (+6.7% against the week before; as of 2026-10-14)
- GPUs: New arXiv papers: 35 papers a day (+12.9% against the week before; as of 2026-10-14)
- Data centers: New arXiv papers: 3 papers a day (+1 against the week before; as of 2026-10-14)
- AI: Wikipedia page views: 14,916 views a day (-8.7% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- AI agents: Wikipedia page views: 731 views a day (-19.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- GPUs: Wikipedia page views: 5,634 views a day (+12.2% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- Data centers: Wikipedia page views: 1,576 views a day (+10.7% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)

## Power

- Lower 48 power demand: 451,285 MW (+2.7% against the same hour yesterday; as of 2026-10-20T03:00Z)
- PJM power demand: 85,494 MW (+3.3% against the same hour yesterday; as of 2026-10-20T03:00Z)
- ERCOT power demand: 53,542 MW (+6.7% against the same hour yesterday; as of 2026-10-20T03:00Z)
- Lower 48 power from natural gas: 38.9% (-0.9 points against the same hour yesterday; as of 2026-10-19T03:00Z)
- Lower 48 power from wind and solar: 16.3% (+2.3 points against the same hour yesterday; as of 2026-10-19T03:00Z)
- ERCOT real-time power price, hub average: 26.04 $ per MWh (+2.98 against the same time yesterday; as of 2026-10-20T04:02Z)
- ERCOT real-time power price, North hub: 25.92 $ per MWh (+3.17 against the same time yesterday; as of 2026-10-20T04:02Z)
- Texas household power, median 12-month fixed offer: 12.8 ¢ per kWh (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Ontario power price expected for the day: 89.05 CAD per MWh (+9.7% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Ontario peak demand expected for the day: 17,277 MW (+3.6% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Projects waiting to connect to PJM's grid: 813 projects (as of 2026-10-13)
- Capacity waiting to connect to PJM's grid: 192 GW (as of 2026-10-13)
- Gas-fired capacity waiting to connect to PJM's grid: 88.6 GW (as of 2026-10-13)
- Gas-fired power plants in development in the US: 291 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Solar farms in development in the US: 581 GW (-0.1% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Wind farms in development in the US: 166 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Battery storage projects in development in the US: 467 GW (-0.1% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Household power price, US: 18.31 ¢ per kWh (+4.9% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Virginia: 17.55 ¢ per kWh (+11.2% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Texas: 15.88 ¢ per kWh (+3.4% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Ohio: 19.45 ¢ per kWh (+11.9% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Georgia: 16.27 ¢ per kWh (+4.6% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Pennsylvania: 21.72 ¢ per kWh (+11.3% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Household power price, Arizona: 15.38 ¢ per kWh (+0.3% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Virginia: 8.58 TWh a month (+13.6% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Texas: 17.84 TWh a month (+7.9% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Ohio: 6.32 TWh a month (+12.7% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Georgia: 6 TWh a month (+5.6% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Pennsylvania: 4 TWh a month (+1.8% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity sold to businesses, Arizona: 4.45 TWh a month (+15.3% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-07)

## Compute

- Training GPUs, AWS spot price: 5.12 $ per GPU-hour (+3.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Inference GPUs, AWS spot price: 0.77 $ per GPU-hour (+0.7% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open model downloads, last 30 days: 2,516,940,360 downloads (-0.2% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open dataset downloads, last 30 days: 131,719,796 downloads (+4.4% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Tokens sent to AI models through one large router: 19,328,894,946,207 tokens a day (-18.2% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- Microsoft capital spending, quarter: 35.8 $ billion (+110% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-06-30)
- Alphabet capital spending, quarter: 44.92 $ billion (+100% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-06-30)
- Amazon capital spending, quarter: 54.21 $ billion (+68.5% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-06-30)
- Meta capital spending, quarter: 30.12 $ billion (+82.1% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-06-30)
- Oracle capital spending, quarter: 28.5 $ billion (+235% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-08-31)
- Capital spending of Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle, calendar quarter: 182 $ billion (+86.5% against the same quarter a year before; as of 2026-06-30)
- US imports of computers and computer parts, month: 51.03 $ billion (+111% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-08)
- Producer prices of data processing and hosting: 127 index (+2.8% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-09)

## Hiring

- Open jobs at 30 AI infrastructure companies: 5,075 jobs (+0.2% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open jobs at compute and data center companies: 1,804 jobs (+0.3% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open jobs at AI labs: 2,211 jobs (+0.3% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open jobs at AI chip makers: 533 jobs (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Open jobs at new energy companies: 527 jobs (-0.8% against the day before; as of 2026-10-19)
- US jobs in data hosting and computing infrastructure: 454 thousand jobs (-4.7% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-09)

## Gas and oil

- Gas scheduled to LNG export terminals, on 12 pipelines: 9.19 million MMBtu a day (+10.4% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Gas scheduled for delivery on 12 US pipelines: 64.74 million MMBtu a day (+6.4% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- US gas in storage: 3,567 billion cubic feet (+1.9% against the week before; as of 2026-10-09)
- US gas in storage against the 5-year average: 1.3% (-0.7 points against the week before; as of 2026-10-09)
- US commercial crude oil stocks: 416 million barrels (-2% against the week before; as of 2026-10-09)
- EU gas storage, share full: 74.47% (+0.16 points against the day before; as of 2026-10-17)

## Onsite power

- Generating capacity at US businesses' and factories' own sites: 33.15 GW (-0.6% against the month before; as of 2026-07)
- Gas-fired generating capacity at US businesses' own sites: 19.92 GW (0% against the month before; as of 2026-07)
- Onsite generation US businesses have reported plans to add: 0.31 GW (-27.9% against the month before; as of 2026-08)
- Gas-fired onsite generation US businesses have reported plans to add: 0.12 GW (0% against the month before; as of 2026-08)
- US small-scale solar generation: 10.93 TWh a month (+2% against the month before; as of 2026-07)
- US net-metered capacity: 40.56 GW (+0.6% against the month before; as of 2026-07)
- US customer-sited capacity that is not net metered: 6.42 GW (+1.1% against the month before; as of 2026-07)
- New York behind-the-meter solar, peak hour: 4,629 MW (+442% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- New York behind-the-meter solar installed: 8,372 MW (+0.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- Onsite energy sites in DOE's register: 13,041 sites (as of 2026-10-14)
- Onsite capacity at data centers in DOE's register: 356 MW (as of 2026-10-14)
- California SGIP applications, last 4 weeks: 342 applications (+25.3% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- Storage applied for under California's SGIP, last 4 weeks: 5 MWh (+22% against the week before; as of 2026-10-18)
- California customer-sited systems connected in the month: 11,383 systems (-15.9% against the month before; as of 2026-08)
- California customer-sited capacity connected at businesses and public sites: 62.7 MW (-27.5% against the month before; as of 2026-08)
- California customer-sited systems connected with a battery: 61.8% (-2.7 points against the month before; as of 2026-08)
- US data centers with an air permit record: 479 data centers (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Texas data center air permit applications pending: 4 applications (0 against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Self-generation and cogeneration filings at FERC, last 30 days: 669 filings (+4.2% against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Company filings mentioning behind-the-meter power, last 7 days: 13 filings (+4 against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)
- Company filings mentioning behind-the-meter power and data centers, last 7 days: 10 filings (+3 against the week before; as of 2026-10-19)

## Data centers

- Planned US data center capacity, as announced: 409 GW (+0.7% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Operating US data center campuses, capacity as announced: 64 GW (+0.8% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- US data centers planned: 2,794 data centers (+1% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- US data centers operating: 1,379 data centers (+0.3% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Texas: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 95 GW (+1% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Texas: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 7.9 GW (-1.2% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Virginia: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 37.9 GW (+0.5% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Virginia: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 17.5 GW (+1.2% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Utah: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 27.5 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Utah: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 1.2 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Ohio: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 25.3 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Ohio: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 4.1 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Georgia: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 19.1 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Georgia: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 3 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Pennsylvania: data center campuses planned, GW as announced: 22.9 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Pennsylvania: data center campuses operating, GW as announced: 0.3 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Gas power built for data centers, operating: 4 GW (as of 2026-08)
- Gas power built for data centers, under construction: 17.1 GW (as of 2026-08)
- Gas power proposed for data centers: 172 GW (as of 2026-08)
- Gas power projects for data centers, operating or in development: 154 projects (as of 2026-08)
- US data center construction, annual rate: 85 $ billion (+73.1% against the same month a year before; as of 2026-08)
- Power of the largest AI data centers, worldwide: 14.2 GW (+0.9% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Compute in the largest AI data centers, worldwide: 14.75 million H100 equivalents (+0.9% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Power of the single largest AI data center: 1,037 MW (+9.6% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Largest AI data centers tracked, worldwide: 94 data centers (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Output of running reactors contracted by data center companies: 8.42 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- Nuclear restarts and uprates contracted by data center companies: 2.99 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)
- New reactors contracted by data center companies: 5.65 GW (0% against the day before; as of 2026-10-20)

## China and the US

- Electricity generated, China, large plants: 9,944 TWh (+4% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity generated, US: 4,481 TWh (+2.3% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Electricity used, China: 9,854 TWh (+6.8% against the year before; as of 2024)
- Electricity sold to end users, US: 3,975 TWh (+2.6% against the year before; as of 2024)
- Share from fuel-burning plants, China: 64% (-1.9 points against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Share from fossil-fuel plants, US: 57% (-1.7 points against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Share from wind and solar, China, large plants: 17.3% (+1.3 points against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Share from wind and solar, US: 18.2% (+1.5 points against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Coal mined, China: 4,759 million tonnes (+2.2% against the year before; as of 2024)
- Coal mined, US: 465 million tonnes (-11.3% against the year before; as of 2024)
- Crude oil produced, China: 4.36 million barrels a day (+1.2% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Crude oil produced, US: 13.82 million barrels a day (+2.5% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Natural gas produced, China: 264 bcm (+3.4% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Natural gas produced, US: 1,140 bcm (+4.7% against the same 12 months a year before; as of 2026-07)
- Solar capacity, China: 1,299 GW (+0.7% against the time before; as of 2026-08)
- Solar capacity, US plants of 1 MW or more: 168 GW (as of 2026-07)
- Wind capacity, China: 693 GW (+0.4% against the time before; as of 2026-08)
- Wind capacity, US: 166 GW (as of 2026-07)
- New-type storage added this year, China: 35.3 GW (as of 2026-09)
- Batteries added this year, US: 10.09 GW (as of 2026-07)
- Electricity used by computing centres, China (2022 = 100): 301 index (as of 2026-08)