Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
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It’s cheaper in the short term to just buy from the grid. If this whole AI thing doesn’t work out, then losses are minimal