#chrisvanhollen — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/215107/ Alsobrooks, Van Hollen Join Senate Call for Action on West Bank Violence #AngelaAlsobrooks #BenjaminNetanyahu #ChrisVanHollen #Israel #IsraelPalestinianConflict #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #SettlerViolence #WestBank

#Senators count the shady ways #datacenters pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand #BigTech pay upfront for data center spikes in #electricity bills.
In letters to seven #AI firms, Senators #ElizabethWarren (D-Mass.), #ChrisVanHollen (D-Md.), and #RichardBlumenthal (D-Conn.) cited a study estimating that “electricity prices have increased by as much as 267 percent in the past five years” in “areas located near significant data center activity.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/shady-data-center-deals-doom-americans-to-higher-energy-bills-senators-say/