US lawmakers fear AI data centres will drive up residents’ power bills


Construction proceeds on phases three through five at a Facebook data centre on Oct 5, 2021, in Eagle Mountain, Utah. — TNS

For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity.

In many places, a sharp uptick in power demand has been driven by data centres, the industrial buildings that house huge banks of computer servers and support our increasingly digital society.

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