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By Laila Kearney

Nov 4 2024 6:31AM

AI creates surging demand for energy.

Regulators raise questions about siting data centres at power plants

Costs and reliability concerns related to the burgeoning trend of building energy-intensive data centres next to US power plants were the focus of a technical conference held by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As the technology industry races to deploy data centres for technologies ...

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