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Senators Want To Make AI Data Centers Pay For The Grid Upgrades Driving Up Your Electric Bill

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1d ago after a power outage last night my computer this morning said it didn’t want to fetch my mail im guessing it wants a treat first +3.0
10h ago As fraudsters target households with fake offers of government support, consumer champion Dom Littlewood explains how to stay safe and why smart prepay meters can make receiving the Warm Home Disco… ×3 +3.0
12h ago Metro back up is the tell. Moscow strikes the power grid to make an entire city unlivable and describes that as pressure. Kyiv needs interceptors for the ballistic waves, not statements of concern. -7.0
1d ago So if the Internet and the electrical grid get knocked out, how many folks are going to make the religious pilgrimage to the Last Computer Still Running Claude? -1.0
1d ago Happy #EEDay2026! ⚡ Energy efficiency is one of the simplest ways to make life more affordable, from lower utility bills and cheaper transportation to more comfortable homes, lower business operati… +6.0
1d ago "Rising electricity demand from manufacturing and data centers could present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernize the electric grid, but rising electricity bills might make such investme… ×3 +1.5
8h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning discusses electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/AQ619b7 +1.0
9h ago [cont.] that can have significant implications for our electricity grid, water, land, air quality and surrounding communities. Hamilton has already been at the centre of debate over whether new AI … -3.0
12h ago Defining these "data centers" as central components of our national security, military and intel agencies, and also defining & regulating them as "utilities" central to our national power grid. ×2 +1.5
13h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning to discuss electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/2yCUT0e +2.0
14h ago How will data centers affect the electric grid? Join WEI for Data Centers and the Grid, a Forward in Energy Forum on energy demand, reliability, affordability, and future grid planning. Oct. 27, … ×2 +3.0
17h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of their power draw back into the electrical grid using green energy, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don'… +3.0
17h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of there draw back into the electrical grid, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don't have to subsidize these… +3.0
18h ago Does anyone remember when Australia was just excited about hosting the Olympics? Now it's a race for data centers. But as we roll out the red carpet for tech giants, are we ready for the environmen… ×2 -2.5
21h ago Texas couldn't be bothered to upgrade the electric grid during winter storms, but they're just now upgrading the electric grid for these data centers. ×2 -4.0
1d ago Also don't need data centers to use resources we need. Don't need the noise pollution they cause. The water pollution they cause. The electric grid drain they cause. They're all part of the same pr… ×2 -7.0
1d ago Danish Parliament adopts "emergency plan" for electricity grid, puts data centers at the back of queue ×2 +3.0
1d ago Following a cyberattack on Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Russia, the company experienced a major "power outage" was reported, rendering a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure unavailable.The… -4.0
1d ago “After the SOU attack on the Yandex data center in Sasovo, there is a large-scale failure in the company A "power outage" was recorded, which made a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure inacc… -3.0
1d ago Data Centers Are Breaking The Power Grid. #DataCenter It is an endorsement of environmental destruction. youtu.be/X71le3av1So?... ×2 -4.0
1d ago Concurrently, an ongoing push in robotics and automation will reduce Super-Intelligence's dependence on human labor. I daresay the current hysterical rush to build data centers and "ugrade" the el… ×2 -3.5
1d ago I think the weirdest thing my kiln did was display incorrect post-firing numbers/data after a power outage. Unplugging it and letting it sit for a few seconds fixed it. My kiln has a KilnMaster co… -4.0
1d ago Theft? Amid data center boom, consumers shoulder costs of upgrading the electrical grid share.google/GThLpCaTEia3... -5.5
1d ago Yes, the draft permitting bill contains nice language about making data centers pay their own power grid costs, but the fine print leaves most of the details up to state governments and utilities -… ×2 -3.0
1d ago Data Center Demand Stalls Power Grid Expansion #PJM #EnergyGrid #DataCenters #PowerGeneration #FERC #ElectricityDemand -3.0
1d ago "If we keep trying to cram more GPUs into data centers, we are going to melt the power grid." — from "Quantum Meets AI: The Next Computing Bottleneck Is Already Here" ×2 -4.0
1d ago The sentences below best shows the scale of the problem data centres present: "There are 315 datacentres in the queue to connect to the UK’s electricity grid, representing 73GW of demand. This is … -4.0
1d ago This is the Linux Foundation we're talking about, so the motivation is to keep data centers wired: Linux Foundation Launches OpenGrid to Build Open, Shared Infrastructure for the World’s Electric G… ×2 +3.0
1d ago This amazing data visualization shows how the wind storm on March 13 affected the U.S. power grid. www.facebook.com/reel/1090141...? +2.0
1d ago Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage… +6.5

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