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Jan 12 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadBluegrass_AddictJan 12
oh man, it would be amazing to be completely off grid in the middle of a city. lol
Show threadmushroommunkJan 12
AI data centers aren’t going up in the middle of cities…
Show threadBluegrass_AddictJan 12
idgaf about datacenters. I just think it would be amazing to disconnect from the electrical grid and give them the finger in the middle of a city
Show threadLordKitsunaJan 12
Am offgrid, not in a city but not entirely fucking nowhere either. In the middle ground. Can confirm it feels good. Especially during storms when i can tell others power went out
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamJan 13
i’m semi-middle ground too. not off grid, just got a generator. gotta tell you, it’s pretty nice not losing the contents of my fridge anymore
Show threadHazelJan 13
Why would you ever disconnect from the grid though? You can sell your power back and you can buy power as a backup if you just stay connected to it.
Show threadBluegrass_AddictJan 13

because I can

  • not care
  • sell it to my neighbours
  • I don’t help corporations/companies that have been actively working harder and harder to screw me over… even for a pittance of kickback. screw em
    • Show threadHazelJan 14
    Good job not caring, proud of you.
    Show threadLordKitsunaJan 15

    Because that increases the cost exponentially. As soon as you do grid connected with sellback there is a huge amount of red tape and the power company has to be involved then Blueprints and only approved installers can do the work.

    Offgrid self consumption you can just do yourself. I spent roughly $20,000 on my stuff. But that got me a full pallet of 30 panels, 30 kWh of battery, 16,000 watts of inverter output.

    For $20,000 most solar installers won’t even talk to you, at best they’ll give you like a small handful of panels and an inverter with no batteries. For a setup similar to mine you’d be looking at like minimum of $90,000 for grid tied from an installer. It just doesn’t make. Financial sense

    Show threadHazelJan 15

    Oh wow, that sucks. Unfortunate that policy seems to incentivize such an individualistic and fragmented approach. Thanks for explaining though.

    I believe power companies here would gladly install the necessary hardware to buy your power. Maybe the demand for green energy is higher, or the lack of freestanding homes might play a role as well.

    Show threadJackFrostNColaJan 13
    They are in Australia. However home solar + battery adoption is also quite high and there are people who are effectively off-grid in the city as they supply a net surplus back to the grid.
    Show threadMinnesotaGoddamJan 13
    i thought we’re talking about dale
    Show threada_non_monotonic_functionJan 14

    They actually are. Musk is currently poisoning black kids in Memphis with a combo of data centers and hydrocarbon burning power sources (of questionable legality).

    They aren’t going into affluent areas of big cities.

    Show threadCubitOomJan 12
    Your electric bill is going up because “ai” users are generating child pornography.
    Show threadKairosJan 12
    The models themselves don’t take that much to run. Maybe 10wh per picture generated strictly not including all the other infrastructure. Training takes a fuck long amount of Matrix stuff.
    Show threadconvectionfusionJan 14
    it’s not just the models, it’s the output.
    Show threadKairosJan 14
    What
    Show threadconvectionfusionJan 14

    THE CHILD PORN YOU DENSE TWAT

    fuck do you need it spelled out in crayons?

    Show threadKairosJan 14
    We are talking about the power usage, not thr data that is coming out of it.
    Show threadconvectionfusionJan 15
    why ignore either issue?
    Show thread87SixJan 14

    Yea dude we get it but the post is about the power usage and bills passed onto consumers

    And fuck me, if some CP enjoyer is kept away from real children, in his basement, because he can just look at CP slop, I’m all for it. Unethical but at least they’re away from our kids… For a while at least until they stop liking the slop… Okay that may be more enabling than preventative… Idk

    Show threadconvectionfusionJan 15
    both are issues, why ignore either?
    Show threadmtpenderJan 12
    “AI is asinine, I tell ya hwat.”
    Show threadsamus12345Jan 13
    Dale strikes me as a very anti-AI kinda guy.
    Show threadNachBarcelonaJan 13
    The meme is on a different sheet than the character.
    Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Jan 13
    He’d be against giant corporate owned AI, while having his own local model loaded with wild-ass conspiracy theories driving him even crazier.
    Show threadsamus12345Jan 13
    This sounds about right.
    Show threadPieisawesomeJan 13
    Probably better to invest in batteries tha make it bigger?
    Show threadBenevolentOneJan 13
    Lil, yeah! Those other stupid poor people are the reason your electricity price went up when
    Show threadNotASharkInAManSuitJan 14
    By “other stupid poor people” are you referring to Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the facebook douchebag?
    Show threadC1pherJan 14
    It will, and you can’t stop it. Zucc needs his volts for his AI, just like Altman and that google prick.
    Show threaddevedesetJan 14
    Just got the news today that my electric rates are going up 12%. This follows multiple above inflation rate hikes in recent years. We used to have cheap electricity. I’m sure that wider adoption of EVs and the push to switch from natural gas in the home to electric everything is a big contributing factor. I’m also sure data centers are a big contributing factor.
    Show threadScoffingLizardJan 14
    Or because people from California will not stop moving here.