Coal Plants Staying Online Because AI Needs So Much Power

The boom that the AI industry has experienced in the past few years is putting a massive strain on the US's aging electricity grid as energy companies struggle to power the massive data centers that the technology requires, Bloomberg reports. One stopgap measure that's being considered, and in some cases already being used, is keeping […]

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