{"id":953934,"date":"2025-08-11T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953934"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:18:53","slug":"as-electric-bills-rise-evidence-mounts-that-data-centers-share-blame-states-feel-pressure-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/as-electric-bills-rise-evidence-mounts-that-data-centers-share-blame-states-feel-pressure-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa.: Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech&#8217;s energy-hungry data centers. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>But more than a dozen states have begun taking steps as data centers drive a rapid build-out of power plants and transmission lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa.: Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech&#8217;s energy-hungry data centers. It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}