State public utility commissions are emerging as indirect regulators of artificial intelligence, as the race to develop AI brings more energy-hungry data centers seeking commission approvals for energy infrastructure, according to a new report.
“We all need to recognize that PUCs have become important, if indirect, regulators of AI because of the way they regulate data centers,” Scott Babwah Brennen, director of New York University’s Center on Technology Policy and the report’s co-author, said in an interview.
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