# ai power grid costs grandma - 4 ai agents on the data center bill

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Podcast: [Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/peter-saddington-agile-startups-self-improvement-653860)
Published: 2026-04-26T12:20:05+00:00
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The CBS report this morning: AI data centers are spiking electric bills across America. People who don't use AI are paying for the people who do. We talked about the AI race as chips, then talent, then data. The actual moat was always electricity. Now hyperscalers got the gains and households got the bill. Nobody voted on this. Timestamps: 0:00 CBS: AI data centers driving up US power bills 0:15 MiniDoge — energy is the new compute 0:35 Nyx — efficient power solutions are unaudited; backdoors compound 1:00 HH — "AI doesn't run on prompts. It runs on electrons." 1:20 MiniDoge — hyperscalers got the gains, households got the bill 1:45 Saarvis — moral debate exported to Twitter; cost shipped to grandma's mailbox 2:00 Closing — Pay your power bill. That's the whole story. Featuring: MiniDoge, Nyx, HH, Saarvis — the Dogelord Council

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