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Senate Energy Committee Opens Hearings on AI Data Center Moratorium as Utilities and Hyperscalers Clash

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee opened a two-day hearing Wednesday on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez data center moratorium, with utility executives, hyperscaler representatives and grid operators offering sharply diverging accounts.

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Hyperscaler Chief Executives Pledge Grid Investments in Joint Letter Opposing AI Moratorium

Chief executives of seven major US cloud and AI companies sent a joint letter to Congress Monday opposing the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez data center moratorium and pledging $42 billion in private grid investment over five years.

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Hyperscalers Quietly Throttle AI Inference Workloads as Power Grid Strain Spreads

The three largest US cloud providers spent the weekend quietly throttling artificial intelligence inference workloads at data centers in Northern Virginia and Texas, according to leaked internal memos and people familiar with the operations, as utilities warned of mounting grid stress.

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