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A House subcommittee is expected to advance legislation that would require tech companies to bear the electricity costs of running the data centers that power their artificial intelligence operations.
The bill represents one of the first direct congressional attempts to attach an energy price tag to AI infrastructure — and to decide who, specifically, should pay it.
What the Bill Would Do A data center is, at its most basic level, a warehouse full of computers drawing continuous power.
AI workloads — training large models and running inference for users — are among the most electricity-intensive tasks those computers perform.
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