Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests

Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests

The AI industry has been pushing a narrative that the technology is a “black box” whose inner workings are so complex that they remain unknown even to the people making it. But another black box of AI is the underlying cost of the technology, and, specifically, what the AI boom is costing people who live near massive data centers. The data centers and energy plants that power large language models and other generative AI tools are subject to con…