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WASHINGTON \u2014 American consumers \u2014 and the Federal Reserve \u2014 are being hit with another high-cost headache<\/a> .<\/p>\n

The gusher of investment in data centers \u2014 likely topping $700 billion<\/a> this year \u2014 to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive. Economists expect it will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 American consumers \u2014 and the Federal Reserve \u2014 are being hit with another high-cost headache .…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3986,13438,1337,254,64,63,99,216311,5931,20395,164,482,16558,795,5465,6147,5058,36041,32979,20634,32772,94658,105,29930,488,374679],"class_list":["post-797580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alphabet","tag-amazon-com","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-data-management-and-storage","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economic-policy","tag-economy","tag-general-news","tag-hp","tag-inc","tag-inflation","tag-information-technology","tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","tag-laptops","tag-meta-platforms","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-semiconductor-manufacturing","tag-sony-group-corp","tag-technology","tag-the-goldman-sachs-group","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-inflation-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}