The proliferation of AI-driven data centers relies on exorbitant amounts of electricity. (Photo: Thianchai Sitthikongsak/Getty Images) If your family is anything like mine, you dread opening up your ...

Electric bills in the Chicago area could go up as much as $70 in the next three years because of data centers, according to the Citizens Utility Board. The nonprofit utility watchdog is calling on ...

A model of the AI data center planned for Jeffersonville. The utility Indiana Michigan Power expects that by 2030, AI data centers planned for its territory will use more electricity every year than ...

Indiana's for-profit monopoly utilities often spread misleading claims that data centers will lower the cost of electricity for everyone else. Data center companies repeat them. Local officials and ...

It all started innocently enough: When we asked where our stored electronic information went, we were told “the cloud. ”Sounds nice. Information stored in a puffy white setting. Of course, there is no ...

The company doesn’t plan to simply assign the costs of energy investments needed to support data centers, to data centers, but to focus on all drivers of “peak demand.” Oregon’s largest electrical ...

A group of nonprofits is petitioning Montana’s utility board to tighten its oversight of NorthWestern Energy, arguing existing customers could foot the bill for the utility’s plan to provide data ...