FILE PHOTO: An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Noah Berger for AWS/File Photo

Big Tech’s data center push has sent electricity bills higher. Lawmakers want to slow them down.

Big Tech’s data center build-out is facing mounting resistance from lawmakers. This week, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the first bipartisan bill in Congress designed to prevent data center power usage from affecting consumers’ electric bills. A week earlier, on Feb. 6, New York became at least the sixth state to…

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‘A more militarized surveillance state’

Tech companies have been pouring billions into artificial intelligence this year in the wake of the AI and data center boom. But a coalition of Amazon employees says the company’s AI usage is happening alongside rising global temperatures, political instability, and “a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people,” according to Fortune….

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