Democrats press tech giants over data center energy use, rising electricity bills

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of information centers connected user energy bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial quality (AI) infrastructure is driving up costs.  Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and respective different tech firms about their information halfway buildouts and agreements…