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Aug 11 2025
05:37 am
70% of rising electricity cost from data centers
By: bizgrrl

Monitoring Analytics, the independent market watchdog for the mid-Atlantic grid, produced research in June showing that 70% — or $9.3 billion — of last year’s increased electricity cost was the result of data center demand.

Yikes! Do you think Tennessee would try to make data centers pay their fair share? Nah.

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yellowdog's picture

AI is a serious threat to the future of life as we know it

Submitted by yellowdog on Mon, 2025/08/11 - 9:22am.

So we have work to do to preserve jobs and a liveable planet for humans.

bizgrrl's picture

Exactly!

Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2025/08/11 - 9:33am.
(in reply to yellowdog)

Exactly!

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