<div id="readability-page-1"><figure>  <img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/gettyimages-2243421675.jpg/query-Y3JvcD0wLDAsMTAwLDEwMCZxdWFsaXR5PTkwJnN0cmlwPWFsbA?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="4000" height="2667" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/gettyimages-2243421675.jpg/query-Y3JvcD0wLDAsMTAwLDEwMCZxdWFsaXR5PTkwJnN0cmlwPWFsbA"/>  <figcaption>  A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p>Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they're having on Americans' utility bills.</p> <p>The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-button issue in the US, which has far more data centers than any other country in the world and has seen waves of local opposition to these facilities as a result. Power demand is suddenly increasing after more than a decade without much change, due in large part to new data centers that underpin the generative AI …</p> <p>Read the full story at The Verge.</p></div>

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<p>民主黨參議員伊麗莎白·沃倫、克里斯·範霍倫和理查德·布盧門撒爾已致信谷歌、微軟、亞馬遜和 Meta 等主要科技公司，以及數據中心開發商，調查數據中心對美國人電費的影響。這一調查是在電價上漲和地方對數據中心的反對聲中提出的，數據中心正在加劇美國的電力需求</p>

Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs

- 三位參議員致信谷歌、微軟、亞馬遜和 Meta，要求調查數據中心對電費的影響。  
- 此舉因美國電費上漲問題日益嚴重，許多地方對數據中心表示反對。  
- 數據中心數量龐大，新建中心推動電力需求激增，產生了新的挑戰。

民主黨立法者正在調查數據中心對電力成本的影響