Is Data Raising Your Electric Bill? The Hidden Cost of America's AI Data Centers.

AI data centers are consuming rapidly growing amounts of American electricity and water—but does that growth have to raise your utility bills? Doc G and the Discussants follow the money from artificial-intelligence servers to new power plants, transmission lines, water systems, utility rates and PJM capacity costs. They examine Big Tech tax incentives, jobs, water consumption and rules that could make data centers pay their own way while protecting households and grid reliability.