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    A $50,000 electric bill? The cost of cooling LA's biggest houses in a heat wave

    by Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times Sep 30, 2022 5 minutes
    A view of a pool with An upstairs 4,000- square bedroom above with private pool at the " The One Bel Air", a 105,000- square-foot mansion by Nile Niami of Skyline Development and designed by Paul McClean, of McClean Design, on Sept. 8, 2021, in Beverly Hills, California.

    Cooling off a 1,500-square-foot bungalow in a heat wave is expensive enough. But how big are the bills for the ever-larger mega-mansions crowning our hills?

    Granted, those who can afford a $50-million home likely aren't sweating a bloated electric bill, nor perhaps the carbon footprint, but experts say the cost of keeping a mansion cool can run well north of $10,000 per month.

    Take "the One," a 105,000-square-foot home in Bel-Air that set a record this year when it sold to the highest bidder for $141 million, the most ever paid for a home at auction in America. It's the largest modern home in the country and looks more like a spaceship than an actual place to live.

    Last year, a court-appointed receiver tasked with finding a buyer for the property told The Times that the monthly

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