David GerardMar 5

Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres.

https://awful.systems/post/7503023

Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres. - awful.systems

Brookings: make the data centres pay to build the power plants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWs1HQEEHE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWs1HQEEHE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260305-power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres [https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260305-power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres] - podcast time: 8 min 47 sec

Show threadsuperfes

Raise the prices for the data centers to offset the cost of the regular consumer?

Insanity!

Mar 5 at 11:42pmWeb
Show threadsamvinesMar 6
Think of all those poor billionaires who won’t be able to afford that 29th yacht if we made them pay their fair share instead of externalising their costs onto an already stretched general.public!
Show threadhypnicjerkMar 9

if power companies charge consumers $100/month extra, we have no choice except to eat it and grumble about it.

if they charge amazon, google, oracle $100/month extra, they’ll spend $100 million to dismantle the company and install toadies at the head of its replacement.