Tech companies are spending billions to build data centres that power AI systems for growth and security. But data centres consume huge amounts of electricity, which has raised the cost of electricity for those living near the data centres. Some tech giants are now saying they will seek to pay not just for the energy its data centres use, but also to cover the costs of updating and adding necessary electricity to the grid. ______________________________________________________________.

The setup: data centres raised electricity costs for nearby consumers; tech giants will now pay for grid upgrades. The closing sentence should explain the *outcome* for the affected consumers.

Why Option 3 (correct): If tech companies cover grid upgrade costs, those costs won't be passed to local consumers — directly resolving the problem introduced at the start.

Why other options fail:

• Option 1: about which companies can afford the cost — a tangential point, not the consequence.
• Option 2: opposite of what's stated (tech giants will pay, *not* governments).
• Option 4: "public anger" is plausible but secondary; the passage is about *costs*, and Option 3 is more directly aligned.