During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
Trump’s deregulatory order aims to facilitate rapid construction of new data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them “The Trump administration is gutting health protections that are important to protecting children from toxins like mercury just to save the coal industry some money,” Nicholas Morales, a lawyer for the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, said … Read more
Antropic is the latest artificial intelligence company to promise to reduce the impact of its data centers on the electricity bills of nearby residents. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to the grid. “This includes shares of these … Read more