How to make AI companies pay your energy bill Ari Matusiak

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Sep 18, 202615:10Society & Culture

Climate expert Ari Matusiak spends his days working to rewire America's energy system, and he has an idea: instead of tech companies building new power plants for their AI data centers, they should invest in energy-effic...

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