New research from MIT and Yale examining national electric bills from 2015 to 2024 found that data centers have actually modestly lowered electricity costs nationally by spreading fixed grid costs across more kilowatt hours and unlocking economies of scale. Chevron signed a twenty-year lease with Microsoft to provide natural gas-fired power for a West Texas data center that will generate its own electricity entirely off the public grid. Nvidia a…
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