The weather outside is frightful (so's the heating bill)
Amid rising energy costs and growing demand from AI data centers, households across the U.S. face increasing utility burdens, especially during winter. At the same time, a new industry has emerged around human-generated training data for AI models, with companies like Mercore profiting by
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