Maggie Easton

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Bloomberg Tech · Meta Shifts to AI Devices From Metaverse · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

Yes, so Brad Smith of Microsoft was in Washington this morning talking about this five-point plan.

So I think the largest piece of this is, of course, the electricity costs.

So they've said that they're going to work with these local power utilities to ensure that Microsoft is paying for any increase in costs that they're responsible for.

Now, of course, the caveat there is they're not ensuring bills won't go up due to inflation or other causes.

But what they're saying, in accordance with what President Trump asked for yesterday, is that if the cost is due to Microsoft coming in with a data center, they're going to ensure that they're paying for that.

Definitely.

So another thing that Microsoft was talking about just this morning is the local tax base.

So historically, when these data center projects come in, Microsoft and other hyperscalers have received some sort of local incentive.

And yeah, just making sure that they're not accepting local incentives in some cases, even though they are still open to state and federal incentives.

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