WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and several Senate colleagues in introducing the Power for the People Act, legislation aimed at curbing rising electricity costs by addressing the enormous energy demands of rapidly expanding data centers.
Amid the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), corporations and big technology companies' build out of data centers has exploded in the past decade and is projected to continue to rapidly increase. As more and more data centers aim to connect to the power grid, consumers are footing the bill for the infrastructure required to bring them online. Because data centers use so much power, the...