{"id":991560,"date":"2026-02-12T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991560"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:36:34","slug":"anthropic-to-shoulder-some-costs-as-data-center-expansions-threaten-to-raise-power-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/anthropic-to-shoulder-some-costs-as-data-center-expansions-threaten-to-raise-power-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic to shoulder some costs as data center expansions threaten to raise power bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday announced initiatives to limit the impact of data centers on consumer energy prices amid increased investment in power-hungry infrastructure necessary for AI tech. <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic will cover all grid upgrade costs needed to connect its data centers by increasing its monthly \u200celectricity charges, thereby \u2060preventing them \u2060from being passed on to consumers, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>While Big Tech and \u200bpolitical leaders across the U.S. are urging a rapid expansion of data-center \u200bcapacity and new power production to keep the country competitive in AI, local communities are voicing concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday announced initiatives to limit the impact of data centers on consumer energy prices amid increased investment in power-hungry infrastructure necessary for AI tech. Anthropic will cover all grid upgrade costs needed to connect its data centers by increasing its monthly \u200celectricity charges, thereby \u2060preventing them \u2060from being passed on to consumers, the company said. While Big Tech and \u200bpolitical leaders across the U.S. are urging a rapid expansion of data-center \u200bcapacity and new power production to keep the country competitive in AI, local communities are voicing concerns.<\/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-991560","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\/991560","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=991560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}