Many Americans are paying for data centers. They shouldn't have to.
<p>Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter.</p><p>Data centers are going up everywhere.
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<p>Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter.</p><p>Data centers are going up everywhere. They need enormous amounts of electricity. Somebody must pay to connect them and build the plants and lines they need.</p><p>In state after state, that somebody is you.</p><p>Not everywhere.
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- <p>Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter.</p><p>Data centers are going up everywhere.
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Many Americans are paying for data centers. They shouldn't have to.
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