(4-6-26) News Too Real -- Who is going to pay for the AI data centers?

In this episode, news producer and host Julia Ann Dudley Najieb discussed a California watchdog who released a report in March of 2026 urging policymakers to act fast on the state’s fast-growing data-center industry – before soaring electricity demand from artificial intelligence lands on the bills of ordinary households. “The costs that data centers impose on the electrical grid should be paid by the centers themselves, not by average California families already struggling with high utility bills,” said Pedro Nava, chair of the Little Hoover commission, the independent bipartisan body that produced the report. Dudley Najieb explores the cost of data centers and what happens next ...