Big Tech's data center push has sent electricity bills higher. Lawmakers want to slow them down.

Big Tech's data center build-out is facing mounting resistance from lawmakers. This week, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the first bipartisan bill in Congress designed to prevent data center power usage from affecting consumers' electric bills. A week earlier, on Feb. 6, New York became at least the sixth state to have its legislators propose a bill to pause data center construction within state lines. This legislation would effectively shut out New York as a potent ...