What Is Entergy's 'Fair Share Plus'? The New Rule Making Data Centres Pay for Your Cheaper Electricity

Fuente: International Business Times

AWS, Meta, Google, Avaio Digital, and Hut 8 are sharing infrastructure costs that would otherwise fall on residential and small commercial customers. The artificial intelligence boom is usually framed as a strain on power grids and a threat to household energy bills. But what if Big Tech's hunger for electricity actually made yours cheaper?That's the promise behind Entergy's 'Fair Share Plus' framework, a regulatory mechanism the US utility announced this month that requires data centres to cover 100% of their direct power costs and contribute to fixed infrastructure expenses.