Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity infrastructure costs to protect consumers
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Summary
Anthropic, an AI company, has announced plans to cover 100% of electricity infrastructure upgrade costs for its data centers to prevent passing those costs onto local consumers. The company will pay higher monthly electricity charges to cover grid connection upgrades, though specific agreements with energy companies were not disclosed. This comes amid growing backlash over energy-intensive data centers in the tech industry.
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· 4 pulledAnthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills.
The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in order to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to power grids.
This includes the shares of these costs that would otherwise be passed onto consumers.
Anthropic didn't provide details today about any agreements it has inked with energy companies in order to accomplish these goals.
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