AI-driven power demands create odd bedfellows among energy players

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The Big Tech boom is driving advancement through artificial intelligence, but it is also putting increasing demands on America’s electric grid. The result could be a “strange bedfellows” alliance between fossil fuel and green energy.

The issue is simple and obvious: Environmental advocates want to move America’s energy use from gasoline and heating oil to electricity to reduce carbon emissions. The more successful they are, the more electricity Americans…