Governments are already conducting probes of AI’s energy use.
Golden shovels and a hardhat in the dirt following a groundbreaking ceremony at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. SoftBank Group Corp. is working to deliver a data center-focused infrastructure project in Ohio so massive that Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son said it would channel $500 billion into a single campus. Photographer: Brian Kaiser/Bloomberg