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As data centers drive up electricity costs, the fight over who’s footing the bill continues

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Consumer advocates in various states are warning that utilities could foist the cost of data center-driven buildouts onto regular ratepayers. As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies — and not regular people — must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence.