The grid is getting more expensive just as AI is asking more of it. In our latest Market Moves Energy newsletter, we look at the pressure behind record utility rate requests — and the alternatives taking shape, from distributed data center infrastructure and hybrid energy systems to community microgrids and virtual power plants. The big question: Does the future of power depend on thinking smaller?


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