AI data center proposals across Indiana are said to have utility companies profiting and raising costs for customers.

The rapid growth of AI data centers has become a major election issue, emerging as a flashpoint in statewide races in November and a central theme in candidates’ platforms. Once-overlooked state ...

Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 is the latest crypto infrastructure company to lock in large-scale, Google-backed financing, as miners increasingly pivot toward artificial intelligence data centers to ...

Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and Amazon Three Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating ...

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...

The proposed site of the data center in Butler County is 1380 University Blvd. The land is currently wooded and owned by the city. Data centers are big business in the United States. U.S. spending on ...

AI data centers and other catalysts are driving an acceleration in electricity demand. Several leading utilities are capitalizing on the surge in demand. They're in strong positions to grow at ...

It all started innocently enough: When we asked where our stored electronic information went, we were told “the cloud. ”Sounds nice. Information stored in a puffy white setting. Of course, there is no ...

Indiana's for-profit monopoly utilities often spread misleading claims that data centers will lower the cost of electricity for everyone else. Data center companies repeat them. Local officials and ...

Creating a separate company to own power plants for large AI data centers is meant to insulate existing utility customers from extra costs. An Indiana utility believes it has the perfect solution to a ...

New data has revealed which states have to pay the most, and least, for utility bills, showing the significant amount households have to pay to cover the costs. According to the third-party bill ...

Nike Carstarphen’s electricity bill is rising, even when she’s using less power. The Baltimore resident’s electricity rate jumped 20% from August to September, even though she had cut her usage 40%, ...