The hidden cost of AI: Why your town is negotiating with Amazon and Microsoft
The future of data centers isn’t being decided in Silicon Valley boardrooms or Washington backrooms. It’s being shaped on Main Street, in town councils and utility commissions across America. What’s emerging is a new “community contract” that delivers for both sides – joining the data center boom with key local investments and benefits.Recommended Video That contract is the foundation for the largest infrastructure buildout in a generation.
- ▪The future of data centers isn’t being decided in Silicon Valley boardrooms or Washington backrooms.
- ▪It’s being shaped on Main Street, in town councils and utility commissions across America.
- ▪What’s emerging is a new “community contract” that delivers for both sides – joining the data center boom with key local investments and benefits.Recommended Video That contract is the foundation for the largest infrastructure buildout in a
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The future of data centers isn’t being decided in Silicon Valley boardrooms or Washington backrooms. It’s being shaped on Main Street, in town councils and utility commissions across America. What’s emerging is a new “community contract” that delivers for both sides – joining the data center boom with key local investments and benefits.Recommended Video That contract is the foundation for the largest infrastructure buildout in a generation. As Fortune recently covered, PJM’s independent market monitor recently tied the expected demand from data centers to roughly $23 billion in higher electricity costs for customers across the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, running through at least 2028.
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