New Study: Data Centers Are Lowering American’s Electricity Bills and Natural Gas Is Powering the Boom
Data centers have not been driving up electricity bills, according to a new working paper from researchers at the Electric Power Research Initiative (EPRI). In fact, EPRI estimates that data centers…
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