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The White House plans to bring together utility companies and data center developers to make a voluntary pledge designed to ensure that rapid growth in electricity demand from artificial intelligence does not drive up power bills for households and businesses.

Hochul is pausing state-level environmental permits for “up to” a year to give the state time to put together a framework to protect the environment, the energy grid and New Yorkers’ electric bills, her office said.

Unrelenting demand for computing power has investors looking for chances to own the physical infrastructure behind AI.

For the third time in less than three weeks, the U.S. Department of Energy authorized PJM Interconnection, the country’s largest grid operator serving 67 million people, to order data centers to rely on their backup generators rather than draw power from the grid as a last resort to maintain grid reliability as temperatures exceed 90 degrees.

The problem clean energy proponents are confronting is that tech giants are demanding power at such speed and scale that the construction of wind and solar simply can’t keep up.

The new commandment is power, power, power. Two deals from the same week show exactly how far that shift has already traveled, at completely opposite ends of the size spectrum.