Texas questions whether AI data centers should pay for the grid they strain
Texas spent years courting AI companies, cloud providers, and Bitcoin miners with cheap electricity, abundant land, and a sales tax exemption that's grown into one of the state's costliest incentive programs. But now, Governor Greg Abbott has told state regulators to flip the arrangement, directing them to require data centers to fund the grid they […]
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