A crackdown on predictive software that sets prices and can rip you off seemed to be brewing in the California Legislature earlier this year , but today lawmakers eased up, voting to kill bills that would have kept software from setting the price of apartment rentals and other goods and services . Another bill, which sought to bar the use of personal information to set prices , was reined in to apply only to grocery stores.

Lawmakers also killed a bill that aimed to protect electric utility customers from bearing higher costs associated with data center proliferation, which has been driven in part by energy-hungry artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT . The measure would have required data centers to publicly disclose how much energy they use .

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