Arizonans need protection from AI data centers' impacts

The increasing demand for resources such as electricity and water from data centers that support the needs of artificial intelligence will tax utilities' service capacity and result in higher prices, according to a recent analysis by University of Arizona professor of law Barak Orbach and his son Eli Orbach. "The most immediate effect of the demand surge will be increases in electricity costs, which will be felt mainly by those connected to power grids serving clusters of AI data centers," they write. "Over time, this could create inflationary pressures."

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