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Data centers are quietly reshaping the American energy landscape, and not cheaply. The PJM Interconnection, which powers thirteen states across the eastern United States, has seen wholesale electricity prices rise roughly seventy-five percent over the past year. An independent watchdog says demand from data centers is the primary driver, and without structural changes, relief isn't coming soon.
Meanwhile, the AI agent economy keeps folding back on itself in increasingly abstract ways. Intercom, now rebranded as Fin, has launched what it calls Fin Operator — an AI agent whose sole purpose is managing another AI agent. The idea is to give back-office teams a smarter way to configure and monitor their customer service automation, though it raises fair questions about where human oversight fits in that chain.
On the research side, a team from Illinois and Stanford has developed a framework called RecursiveMAS that claims to speed up multi-agent AI inference by two point four times while cutting token usage by seventy-five percent. The key insight is getting agents to share information more efficiently than passing raw text back and forth, which today burns enormous compute resources.
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