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Big Tech Is Stealing America's Electricity

Built & Broken · 2 weeks ago

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How Big Tech is buying up America's power grid to run artificial intelligence data centers. By 2026, PJM capacity auctions jumped ...

This is GridWatch the USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Built & Broken, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.

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