Vos sees focus on data centers as part of broader look at energy costs

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wants data centers included in a broader look at what is driving high energy costs.
Cryptopolitan on MSN

US data centers add $6.5b to power costs raising AI energy concerns

Data centers in the US have added $6.5 billion to electricity costs, fueling concerns about the energy demands of artificial ...
The Baltimore Sun

Lawmakers urge grid operator to protect Marylanders from data center costs

As data centers drive a surge in power demand, Maryland state Sen. Katie Fry Hester and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pressing the operator of the region’s electrical grid to ensure residents ...
WTEN

Data center boom straining power grid as New York asks who should pay

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Assembly held a hearing on Thursday to examine rising energy costs for everyday utility customers tied to new consumers on the electric grid, like ...
MLive

Consumers Energy rate changes aim to shelter customers from AI data center costs

LANSING, MI - Consumers Energy, Michigan’s second largest electric utility, has a newly modified electric rate in place that will allow it to serve power-hungry data centers undergirding artificial ...
Ars Technica

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...
CNN

Data centers are spiking electricity costs in Maryland. It’s the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ one expert warns

Nike Carstarphen’s electricity bill is rising, even when she’s using less power. The Baltimore resident’s electricity rate jumped 20% from August to September, even though she had cut her usage 40%, ...
Inside Climate News

Maryland Leads Multistate Push to Shield Consumers from New Data Center Costs

Maryland lawmakers are leading a multistate, bipartisan effort to insulate ratepayers from the anticipated electricity price hikes as PJM Interconnection, the grid operator servicing 13 states and the ...
Crain's Cleveland Business

Will PJM do what it takes to get data-center costs under control?

The data-center boom is pushing electricity costs to the breaking point for PJM Interconnection — the country’s biggest grid operator, serving more than 65 million people from the mid-Atlantic coast ...
The Hill

Democrats press tech giants on data center energy use, rising electricity bills

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...
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Wisconsin data center energy demands, costs, capacity form puzzle

(The Center Square) – Increased energy use from artificial intelligence data centers in Wisconsin will have a cost. But the question is whether those costs will reach the residential utility payers on ...
SpaceNews

Beyond the horizon: cost-driven strategies for space-based data centers

Axiom Space and Spacebilt plan to install an optically interconnected orbital data center node on the International Space Station in 2027. Credit: Axiom Space As the space industry explores orbital ...