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public utility

noun as in government-run public service

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In South Carolina, public utility Santee Cooper is in talks to sell its partially built AP1000s to Brookfield, which could complete them to power AI data centers.

The model now providing depoliticized ATC in nearly 100 countries is an aviation public utility, funded entirely by system fees and charges.

The Google-owned maker of self-driving taxis recently hit 1 million driverless rides in California in September, according to a report this week from the state’s public utilities commission.

The second was at Commercial Road where a section of trunk road needed to be replaced and public utilities moved which had to be carried out before the main work could begin.

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More recently, the public utility said it couldn’t provide a price tag, and that, although possible, undergrounding transmission lines is rare, complex and expensive.

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