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February 18, 2026

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

  • Data centers keep spreading fast, and some use as much electricity as a small city.
    • By MARC LEVY
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File [enlarge]
    A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, shown here last year.

    HARRISBURG, Pa. — 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.


     
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