Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users
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For hyperscale AI builds, grid access is no longer a shared civic subsidy—Virginia forcing data centers to fund dedicated power infrastructure turns electricity into a direct line item, not a socialized cost. If you’re siting compute in the Mid-Atlantic, model total landed cost with private substations and transmission, not just cloud rates.
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