Congress Holds Hearing on Energy and AI Data Centers — AI: The Washington Report | JD Supra

[co-author: Matthew Tikhonovsky]

• The emergence of DeepSeek has complicated the outlook for the amount of investment necessary in data centers and electricity generation for AI advancements. Against that backdrop, on March 5, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing titled “Scaling For Growth: Meeting The Demand For Reliable, Affordable Electricity.”
• At the hearing, four experts testified about the growing demand for energy in the US,…