📰'There’s a reason electricity prices are rising.
And it’s not data centers.' 🫢
WaPo claims that it is NOT the datacenters raising costs! Instead:
"... a new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle suggests that, counterintuitively, more electricity demand can actually lower prices." 🧐
Also, they say it's the "... price of transformers and wires [which have] far outpaced inflation over the past five years." 🤔
But there's nothing in the article about Amazon's plans to build datacenters... like the plan to spend $20B in Pennsylvania by taking advantage of government tax breaks. 💰💰💰 (1)
Heck, do they even mention that their paper is owned by the same folks building these datacenters?
Or do they discuss "[all] of the lingering questions about Amazon’s [plans which are creating] big concerns for lawmakers, as well as for advocates of clean energy and grid reliability." 🕵️♂️ (1)
It seems the article from WaPo is biased. Do you agree?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/25/data-centers-electricity-prices-rise/
(archive) https://archive.ph/WwIQh
(1) https://archive.ph/o94zx
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