Even the underlying AI energy demand can rise to electric bills
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Artificial intelligence ambitions in tech companys will require a large expansion of electric data centers. These risks of surgery demanding that extend electric bills for all – even if some data centers are never built.
US utility companies rushed to build multiple electric plants, shipping lines and gas pipelines to meet the rapidly growing Electricity requirements in data centers. US residency costs increase approx 30 percent since 2021 – faster than inflation – according to a report By Powerlines, an organizational organization in the US specifies utility regulation. The past two years alone saw the entire electric bill adding $ 10 billion each year.
Now a new one report Southern Invironmental Law Center, an organization that is not a Virginia-based environmental organization, warns electrical plan forecasts, which can lead to data center costs. In particular, developers often submit requests requested for electrical service in many regions for each data project – before a location.
“If the expected data center is not fully repaired – that all evidence and frankly, usually teaching unnecessary burdens and underutized gas and electric infrastructure,” as Megan Gibson at the center of the lawn.
Former executives from companies like Google and Meta have identified themselves to practice making many requests for the Data Center’s electricity. “Tech executives say that quiet part is strong,” says Gibson. New Scientist The Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft is about their data development plans, but have not received additional comments.
Estimated estimates are more clearly when all US data projects have been carried out by 2025 to 2030 consideration. Together, they will need 90 percent of the global chip supply – yet in the US now accounts for 50 percent of the global chip requested. “It’s never possible that all the chips in the world go to this US subset,” as Marie N Fagan In Internations in London international, a global consulting company in US and Canada consulting, whose team prepares the report.
To lighten the burden for ordinary ratepayers, “states should require brothers to sign contracts with data center customers that have set these data centers”, as Ari peskoe At Harvard Law School, who is an advisor for Powerlines.
Some state governments have begun to move. On July 9, Ohio State Regulators directed Many data center customers in Ohio’s largest utility company must pay at least 85 percent of their subscribed power loading – even if their actual power consumption falls below that point. Georgia State Officers adoption A rule attempting to prevent the development of data center from heavy ratepayers.
“The Data Center industry has been delivered to the payment of full service costs for energy using it, including transmission costs,” as Aaron Tinjum In the data center coalition, an association in Virginia-based industry. “This is critical to ensure fair and equitable power rate for all customers.”
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