Three U.S. Senators — Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. — are looking at how AI data center operations across the country are impacting the cost of electricity for the average American consumer. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/energy-environment/senate-democrats-electricity-prices-data-centers.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/energy-environment/senate-democrats-electricity-prices-data-centers.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>The New York Times, the legislators sent letters to seven tech companies, including data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon”>Amazon, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google, Meta, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix, saying that the massive power demands of the AI data centers they’re building have…
