As tech companies advance along their quest to develop advanced forms of A.I., the electricity usage of data centers that power such technologies is expected to skyrocket—especially in states like Virginia, where so many data centers have been built that one of its regions is dubbed “Data Center Alley.”

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Data centers accounted for 4 percent of total electricity use in the U.S. last year, and this figure could rise to 9.1 percent by the end of the decade, according to an analysis from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). “An explosive growth in investments aimed at building and deploying new A.I. capabilities” are ringing alarms over the technology’s energy consumption and environmental impacts, said the report.

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