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What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill

2025-12-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·32m 15s ·by NPR
What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill
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As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, data centers have kind of become the thing in the US economy. But a