962: What If We Paid Households to Power the Grid? Ari Matusiak

SunCast by Nico Johnson

Aug 27, 202601:22:22Science & Medicine

America needs more power. Data centers are accelerating demand, utilities are planning billions of dollars in new infrastructure, and households will ultimately help pay for much of it. But what if we invested some of th...

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