How the AI-driven data center boom is leading to skyrocketing energy bills

Atlanta — It is a sunny afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, but inside Carolyn Kayne's 3,000-square-foot home, it is cold. "I'm walking around in a ski suit trying to stay warm in the winter," Kayne told CBS News. It is just one of the ways Kayne has tried to beat her skyrocketing electric bills, which have almost doubled in two years. She has now turned off her heat and water, leaving much of her home hard to live in. "I live in a little apartment in the back," Kayne explains. …