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Aug 11 2025
06:37 am
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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AI is a serious threat to the future of life as we know it
So we have work to do to preserve jobs and a liveable planet for humans.
Exactly!
(in reply to yellowdog)
Exactly!