Sabri Beneshour

Microsoft says it will foot the bill for extra data center electricity costs.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshour, in for David Brancaccio.

The data centers needed to power AI are controversial in many communities.

People are worried that the extra demand will drive up their electricity bills, which already are up 7% in a year on average, according to yesterday's inflation report.

In response to this backlash, Microsoft is pledging to pay extra for electricity to power its data centers so regular people's electric bills don't get driven up.

The tech giant also says it'll work to prevent water resources from being drained by giant server farms.

Marketplace's Nova Sappho has more.

Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to control the country's finances.

And some lawmakers are trying to use that power to prevent the Trump administration from invading Greenland.

Democratic Senator Gene Shaheen of New Hampshire and Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said

have introduced legislation to bar the Pentagon and Department of State from using funds appropriated by Congress to, quote, blockade, occupy, annex, conduct military operations against or otherwise assert control over the territory of a NATO member state.

Venezuela's state-owned energy company has reportedly started to ramp up oil production again as exports of crude restart under U.S.

supervision.

That oil production had fallen close to zero after the U.S.

imposed a blockade on oil shipments from the country.

So what does a Venezuelan oil industry under U.S.

control look like?

And what is the oil market?

look like in that situation?

So we put that question to Andrew Campbell.