Energy and climateFinding
Large data centers should pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades built to serve them.
Utilities often spread the cost of new power plants and transmission lines across all their customers. This would charge the cost of capacity built for large data centers, many of them serving artificial intelligence, to those data centers.
Alani Bankhead
Make polluters pay for their own cleanup, and make the biggest new power users, like data centers, cover their own costs.
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