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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The annual meeting of state utility regulators is typically a humdrum affair of dry speeches and panel discussions. But in November, the scene at the Marriott in Anaheim, Calif., had a bit more flash.</p><p>The conference’s top sponsors included the nation’s biggest tech companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Their executives sat on panels, and the companies’ branding was plastered on product booths and at networking events. Even the lanyards around attendees’ necks were stamped with Google’s colorful logo.</p><p>Just a few years ago, tech companies were minor players in energy, making investments in solar and wind farms to rein in their growing carbon footprints and placate customers concerned about climate change. But now, they are changing the face of the U.S. power industry and blurring the line between energy consumer and energy producer. They have morphed into some of energy’s most dominant players.</p><p>They have set up subsidiaries that invest in power generation and sell electricity. Much of the energy they produce is bought by utilities and then delivered to homes and businesses, including the tech companies themselves. Their operations and investments dwarf those of many traditional utilities.</p><p>But the tech industry’s all-out artificial intelligence push is fueling soaring demand for electricity to run data centers that dot the landscape in Virginia, Ohio and other states. Large, rectangular buildings packed with servers consumed more than 4 percent of the nation’s electricity in 2023, and government analysts estimate that will increase to as much as 12 percent in just three years. That’s partly because computers training and running A.I. systems consume far more energy than machines that stream Netflix or TikTok."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.0PTM.0P9fT6U7TXDp&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/08/14/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.0PTM.0P9fT6U7TXDp&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electricity</span></a></p>
JEmphatically<p>With electricity prices rising at more than double the rate of inflation in the US, AI data centres need to be flexible and more energy efficient to help keep prices down.</p><p>Google is taking some first steps in that direction, but more of the big tech companies need to follow its lead.</p><p>New story for The Energy Mix!</p><p><a href="https://www.theenergymix.com/google-data-centres-turn-to-demand-response-to-dodge-power-crunch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theenergymix.com/google-data-c</span><span class="invisible">entres-turn-to-demand-response-to-dodge-power-crunch/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AIdatacentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIdatacentres</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/grids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grids</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>

Alright peeps. I just lost power for the second time in three days, and it's only getting worse from here with #ClimateChange. I can't afford to pay another mortgage for solar panels on my house, and most home battery backups seem to cost the same as a used car. What are your suggestions? How can I get a battery backup system that can keep me going during outages? What resources for learning to implement systems are there? #solar #battery #energy #backup #electricity

#Redwood is repurposing #GM's #EV #batteries into energy storage
“Market for #gridscale batteries and backup power isn’t just expanding, it’s becoming essential infrastructure,” said Kurt Kelty, GM VP of batteries, propulsion, and #sustainability. “#Electricity demand is climbing, and it’s only going to accelerate… GM batteries can play an integral role.” Redwood uses second-life batteries from GM EVs and new GM battery modules to create #US-built energy storage systems
electrek.co/2025/07/16/redwood

Electrek · Redwood is repurposing GM’s EV batteries into energy storageAv Michelle Lewis
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@kevinrns @aerofreak

Dont miss the point that #EV s have a lower lifecycle cost even if they are more expensive to purchase up front. Repair bills in the long term are still close to zero. Batteries last 20 years plus. Brakes same.

Just the consumables: #electricity, #tires and windshield wipers, and that 150 yr old technology - lead acid 12V #batteries that consistently fail in 5-7 yrs. When will we go to modern chemistries for those?

The Saskatchewan government is hoping to delay and dismiss a case brought by a group of three Saskatchewan and Manitoba residents who say extending coal past Canada’s 2030 deadline is illegal.

The judge in the case is considering whether she should take on the case while the province gets busy with plans to refurbish plants, increasing the amount of coal they burn for electricity.

And Environment and Climate Change Canada replied to my questions with a mild threat.

Read my NEW story for The Energy Mix out now!

theenergymix.com/court-weighs-

The Energy Mix · Court Weighs Case Against Saskatchewan’s Plan to Extend Coal PowerAv Jody MacPherson

A new RMI report warns a “power panic” by utilities may result in overbuilding infrastructure leaving ratepayers to foot the bill.

And several other reports and studies express similar concerns.

Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program concluded that regulators face political pressure to approve major economic investments already touted by elected officials for their economic impacts.

Read my latest for the Mix!

theenergymix.com/global-arms-r

The Energy Mix · ‘Global Arms Race’ to Overbuild Data Centres Is Bad News for RatepayersAv Jody MacPherson

"Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers.

It's not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta.

But more than a dozen states have begun taking steps as data centers drive a rapid build-out of power plants and transmission lines.

That has meant pressuring the nation's biggest power grid operator to clamp down on price increases, studying the effect of data centers on electricity bills or pushing data center owners to pay a larger share of local transmission costs.

Rising power bills are “something legislators have been hearing a lot about. It’s something we’ve been hearing a lot about. More people are speaking out at the public utility commission in the past year than I’ve ever seen before,” said Charlotte Shuff of the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, a consumer advocacy group. “There’s a massive outcry.”

Some data centers could require more electricity than cities the size of Pittsburgh, Cleveland or New Orleans, and make huge factories look tiny by comparison. That's pushing policymakers to rethink a system that, historically, has spread transmission costs among classes of consumers that are proportional to electricity use."

abcnews.go.com/Technology/wire

ABC News · As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to actAv MARC LEVY Associated Press

On “sellers’ #inflation”:

“The higher upstream the supply disruption, the greater the ultimate impact on consumers. Raise the price of #electricity or oil, for instance, and suddenly everything becomes harder to make or move. The same is true for chemicals, metals, lumber, or any of the basic #commodities required to produce more complex products. If a government could somehow prevent the price of these magnifiers from getting out of hand, it could stave off inflation.”

newyorker.com/news/persons-of-

The New Yorker · What if We’re Thinking About Inflation All Wrong?Av Zachary Carter