""value new jobs and property tax revenue, but not if they come with higher power bills or tighter water supplies.""
""Especially when tech companies are so profitable, we believe that it's both unfair and politically unrealistic for our industry to ask the public to shoulder added electricity costs for AI.""
""Very Large Customers," including data centers, the cost of the electricity required to serve them."
Residential electricity rates have risen in dozens of states due to inflation, supply chain constraints, and grid upgrades. Communities value new jobs and property tax revenue but oppose higher power bills and tighter water supplies. Microsoft will ask utilities and public commissions to set rates that cover the full electricity costs for its data centers, including infrastructure additions, and supports charging Very Large Customers the cost to serve them. Microsoft rejects asking the public to shoulder added electricity costs for AI. The company targets a 40 percent improvement in data center water-use intensity by 2030 and is deploying closed-loop cooling that eliminates potable water for cooling.
Read at Ars Technica
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