How you’re paying for big tech’s AI speculation

An Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia. | Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you’ve noticed your electricity bill is higher than normal recently, you’re not alone. Power is getting more expensive everywhere, outpacing inflation. One major culprit? The flurry of new data centers being built to meet demand from the AI sector. To find out more, I asked my colleague Umair Irfan, who covers energy policy, for Vox’s daily newsletter, Today, Explained. Our conversation is below, and you can sign up for the newsletter here for more conversations like this. What’s been going