Who is really footing the AI energy bill? Inside the debate about data center electricity costs

The hyperscalers racing to build the data centers needed for the AI boom have a PR crisis on their hands, but the industry is not taking the problem lying down.

Oracle tells investors not to worry about data center spending because its 'very, very good' at cost-cutting

As the cloud giant spends billions on the AI race, it reassures investors that it is still "very good" at doing things on the cheap.

It takes more than Nvidia's chips to build the world's data centers

Nvidia (NVDA) is winning the global AI explosion. The company's chips are the most wanted in the world, with hyperscalers ranging from Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL) to Meta (META) and ...
ConsumerAffairs

What impact are data centers having on your electric bill?

Since 2020, the average U.S. residential electric bill has increased 29.3%, as energy demand climbs with the rapid expansion of AI-powered data centers.
OPB

As electricity costs rise, everyone wants data centers to pick up their tab. But how?

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 ...
Post and Courier

A $3B data center is coming to Spartanburg County. Some residents are pushing back.

SPARTANBURG — New York-based TigerDC plans to build a high-performance computing data center in the Tyger River Industrial Park–North, code-named Project Spero. The project has faced local pushback, ...
Forbes

Why Bitcoin Miners Are Winning The AI Data Center Arms Race

3d rendered image, perfectly usable for all kinds of topics related to data and digital analytics. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from ...