Energy and climateFinding
Large data centers should pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades built to serve them.
Utilities often spread the cost of new power plants and transmission lines across all their customers. This would charge the cost of capacity built for large data centers, many of them serving artificial intelligence, to those data centers.
Ashley Moody
If billion-dollar tech companies want to build a massive data center, Floridians should not be left to foot the bill.
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