Travis Kavulla Explains Why Electric Bills Shot Up
The US electricity system faces unprecedented strain from surging data center demand driven by AI, but its fragmented, outdated regulatory structure is ill-equipped to handle the scale and speed of required investment. The real bottleneck isn't just power generation—it's transmission, equ
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