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From rural Virginia to the Arizona desert, communities that once welcomed tech investment are now pushing back against data centers amid growing concerns that these facilities — built by so-called AI hyperscalers — are straining local power grids, raising costs for everyone else. Explore the largest data centers in California and see all data centers in California on a map. Michael is the CEO of Cleanview. data center annual energy use in 2023 (not accounting for cryptocurrency) was approximately 176 terawatt-hours (TWh), approximately 4. annual electricity consumption that year. However, a recent report from SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor research firm, argued that the expansion of data centers is only part of the story, and claimed that market design and policy decisions play a greater role in these energy price increases than AI infrastructure growth alone. They are essential for storing and processing vast amounts of energy, and their energy needs are skyrocketing.

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