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Microsoft's Brad Smith urges Big Tech to fund rising local electricity and infrastructure costs from AI data centers amid community backlash over higher bills and water use.
- Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, is urging lawmakers to ensure that tech companies cover the costs of AI data centers instead of taxpayers.
- Concerns have arisen from local communities about rising electricity prices and water diversion tied to these data centers, as noted in an interview with The Associated Press.
- Electricity prices have risen since June due to data centers, impacting ratepayers in the mid-Atlantic region.
- Environmentalists warned that Microsoft data centers could drive up electricity rates and use Lake Michigan's water, prompting proposals for a moratorium on construction.
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Microsoft says it will ask to pay higher electricity bills in areas where it’s building data centers, in an effort to prevent electricity prices for local residents from rising in those areas. The move is part of a broader plan to address rising prices and other concerns sparked by the tech industry’s massive buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure across the United States.
Microsoft unveils “community-first AI infrastructure plan” after Trump calls out data centers for high electricity bills
Microsoft’s Brad Smith said that the company will ask utilities and public commissions to charge it enough to cover both data center installation and usage, as well as support two-tier pricing systems (like...
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to ‘pay our way’ for AI data centers amid rising opposition
It won’t be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs. Microsoft is trying anyway. The software giant’s president, Brad Smith, is meeting with federal lawmakers Tuesday to push forward an approach that calls for the industry, not taxpayers, to pay the full c…
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Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition
Microsoft is trying to win over communities concerned about AI data centers. The company's president, Brad Smith, is meeting with federal lawmakers to emphasize that the industry, not taxpayers, should cover the costs of these centers.
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