AI energy use impacting election

An opinion piece argues that AI energy use is “the ultimate midterm election issue.” The author points to 3 projects to support their view.

(1) Arizona Public Service raising rates on residential bills & imposing a 45% rate increase for extra large load users.

(2) Nevada Energy will stop providing power to the California side of Lake Tahoe due to data center usage and transmission constraints. 

(3) In the East, the PJM interconnection hoopla.

The overall issue: affordability.

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