Meta moves to trade electricity to secure AI data center power
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Meta is seeking federal approval to trade wholesale electricity so it can underwrite long-term power from new plants for its AI data centers and resell excess on wholesale markets. The move, which Microsoft is also pursuing and Apple already has approval for, highlights how the AI compute boom is pushing big tech deeper into energy markets.
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