Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said she has opened an investigation into AI data centers.
“A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants,” Warren said.
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“I’ve opened an investigation. These companies need to pay their costs,” she added.
A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants.
I’ve opened an investigation. These companies need to pay their costs.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 12, 2026
“U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) opened an investigation into the extent to which big tech data centers are driving up consumers’ electricity costs. The senators sent letters to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix,” Warren’s office stated in a press release last December.
“We write
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