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Commercial Electricity Sales: Virginia vs. the U.S.
Electricity sold to commercial customers over the past twelve months, indexed to the start of the chart
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
EIA retail sales (Form EIA-861M), twelve-month totals. Utilities bill most data centers as commercial customers, so this is a proxy for data center load: the sector also holds offices, stores, hospitals and schools.
Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, and its electricity sales show it. Indexed to the same starting point, the gap between Virginia and the country is the load the data centers added.
What this chart reads
- Virginia Commercial Electricity Sales · 12-Month Total (GWh)as “Virginia”behindlatest 2026-07-01
- U.S. Commercial Electricity Sales · 12-Month Total (GWh)as “United States”behindlatest 2026-07-01
Sources
Virginia Commercial Electricity Sales · 12-Month Total (GWh). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, electricity retail sales by state and sector, Forms EIA-861M and EIA-861 (eia.gov). Public domain. Refreshed weekly.
U.S. Commercial Electricity Sales · 12-Month Total (GWh). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, electricity retail sales by state and sector, Forms EIA-861M and EIA-861 (eia.gov). Public domain. Refreshed weekly.
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