“It’s possible this problem could get worse,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School, says of the impact data centers are having on rising electricity costs for Americans. “These new data centers are so large that utilities have a great excuse to build a lot of infrastructure and spread those costs to everyone, even though they're being built just for these data centers,” he says. Although, some states are starting to “wise up” and pass laws tackling the iss