🔋🪫 When a data center begins operating in a new ZIP code, do local household electricity bills rise relative to those not near the data center? #Rutgers researchers built a state-ZIP-level panel and linked those places to 2,277 operational data centers with valid ZIP codes:
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If you have opened an electric bill recently, you have probably noticed the same thing many households have: it is higher than it used to be. Nationally, average residential electricity prices rose by...
