{"id":13364,"date":"2025-10-24T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:27:16","slug":"ai-data-centers-are-to-blame-for-soaring-utility-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13364\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centers are to blame for soaring utility bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                You can now blame the rise of AI for soaring utility bills.&#13;<br \/>\nResearchers at Berkley crunched the numbers.&#13;<br \/>\nThey found the power usage of data centers more than doubled between 2017 and 2023.&#13;<br \/>\nData centers, like this one in Piscataway, New Jersey, handle financial transactions, host our photos, videos and more.&#13;<br \/>\nThe boom in AI data centers are expected to more than triple by 2028.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can now blame the rise of AI for soaring utility bills.&#13; Researchers at Berkley crunched the numbers.&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1609,69,71,70,10209],"class_list":{"0":"post-13364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-utility-bills"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}