Democrats press tech giants on data center energy use, rising electricity bills
Dec 16, 2025
Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving up costs. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and several other tech firms about their data center build-outs and agreements... ...read more read less