An AI data center needs enormous amounts of electricity. Building power plants is expensive, but it gets cheaper per unit as you build bigger. A developer could deliberately build more generation than the data center needs, then sell the surplus at lower cost into the surrounding city. If the surplus is cheap enough, residents’ bills ...

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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/08/ai-data-centers-can-subsidize-electricity-for-host-cities.html