WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- Sen. Reverend Warnock issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) joined Senator Ed Markey and five other Senators in urging Laura Swett, Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to take action to ensure that the growth of data centers does not result in unjust or unreasonable increases in energy costs for American households.
"Over the next three years, energy-intensive AI and cryptomining processors could triple their electricity consumption, adding more than 10,000 megawatts of demand annually. In PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization (RTO) that serves thirteen states and the District of Columbia in the mid-Atlantic region, data centers wil...