Where AI data centers are reducing power bills

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  NPR.

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  Recently, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a bill

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  to pause new AI data center construction.

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  Among their complaints, electricity costs.

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  People's energy bills around the country are skyrocketing.

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  In order to pay for these AI data centers for them.

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  Over the last five years, electricity prices have more than tripled in areas close to data centers.

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  That's according to Bloomberg.

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  These price rises have contributed to local opposition blocking billions of dollars worth of data centers.

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  And this week, Maine's House passed initial approval on pausing most data center construction in the state.

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  Both the Senate and governor support the bill, so it's expected to pass.

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  He says that data centers are a scapegoat for long-standing issues in the electricity market.

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  I think data centers are a factor, but to say that they 're the ones solely responsible for higher electricity prices,

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  I think, is perhaps misleading.

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  So, who's right?

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  Today on the show, data centers and your power bill.

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  We excavate years of underinvestment in the grid and ask whether the current wave

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