WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) opened an investigation into the extent to which big tech data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs. The senators sent letters to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix.
"We write in light of alarming reports that tech companies are passing on the costs of building and operating their data centers to ordinary Americans as AI data centers' energy usage has caused residential electricity bills to skyrocket in nearby communities," wrote the lawmakers. "Through these utility price increases, American families ...