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Electricity costs have skyrocketed in the US in recent years, and many have been quick to place the blame on the rise of electricity-hogging data centres sprouting up everywhere—such as the mammoth facilities now fueling tools from OpenAI and xAI.
But it turns out that the rise of data centres may not have been the real, or the only, factor driving up electricity bills in recent years, according to new research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a non-profit research…
