WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jack Reed issued the following press release:
As a growing body of research shows that the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in the U.S. is driving up electricity bills for everyday Americans and could have unintended health and environmental impacts as well, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, are teaming up with U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, and three other New England Senators in requesting answers from ISO New England (ISO-NE) about how the grid operator plans to protect residential ratepayers from data center-d...