Tech companies would have to pay AI data center energy costs under bill moving in Congress
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A House subcommittee may advance legislation Wednesday to make tech companies pay the energy costs for operating data centers to power AI.
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Data centers must bring their own power, they must reuse their own water, and they must reduce electricity costs for residential and small business customers.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 23, 2026
We will slash incentives and protect Texas neighborhoods.
Those are bottom line expectations. pic.twitter.com/jjUEciR2pw
Worth reading.
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) June 22, 2026
The marginal water consumption of a properly implemented data center for its liquid cooling is almost zero.
People confuse water needed for power plants that power the data centers to the water need to operate the data center itself (cooling). https://t.co/fYYynr0dGp
Carmack is an OG but nuclear reactors don't store my private information harvested by tech oligarchs. More data centers along with things like Palantir etc make this a non-starter. People wouldn't even be concerned if not for these over-steppers.
— crush override (@deeplore5) June 23, 2026
The damage has already been done. I attended the Capitol hearings King held. We already have over 413+ data centers built here, and you’ve provided these companies with over a billion dollars in subsidies.
— Merissa Hansen (@merissahansen17) June 23, 2026
The head of ERCOT stated that there are over 450 gigawatts of power… https://t.co/p1ZqjNXGd2 pic.twitter.com/f69gG7zWUL
The tech bros can have their data centers when all the goddamn Indians are gone.
— Xotes (@XotesSol) June 24, 2026