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Why AI data centers might lower electricity prices — not raise them

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Why AI data centers might lower electricity prices — not raise them
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Planning commission meetings in Joliet, Illinois, aren’t typically raucous affairs. The one on March 5, however, was buzzing and standing-room-only.
Hundreds of residents crammed into City Hall, filling multiple overflow rooms. Most were waiting for a chance to voice their opinion on a proposal to site a $20 billion AI data center — the largest in the state — on 795 acres of farmland on Joliet’s east side.
“These are mega-rich people who are not here to do charitable things,” said lifelong resid

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