CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is considering electric rate changes as power demand from large data centers continues growing across the region.
According to reporting from WATE-TV in Knoxville, TVA leaders are discussing whether data centers should eventually fall under a separate rate structure because of the massive amounts of electricity they consume.
The discussion comes as artificial intelligence and cloud computing fuel rapid growth in energy-hungry data centers throughout the South.
WATE reports TVA officials have raised concerns about “electric rate fairness” and whether residential customers could eventually shoulder higher costs tied to expanding infrastructure demands…