East coast could soon get rolling blackouts during summer because data centers have pushed electric grid to the limit
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/east-coast-blackouts-ai-data-centers-b2899669.html
East coast could soon get rolling blackouts during summer because data centers have pushed electric grid to the limit
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/east-coast-blackouts-ai-data-centers-b2899669.html
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No thank you
Shut down the data centers then. Or time their use for other times. People need lights, not AI slop.
This is what Dwarf Fortress players colloquially refer to as “fun”.
You mean “Data centers will experience rolling blackouts, because people are more important than corporations” Right?
Then force the data centers to spend some of the money they are making to build the infrastructure required for them to push out the slop from their AI farms?
The grid should serve public needs first, not just whoever can pay for capacity.
Time to tax and regulate AI data centers. Triple their electric bill. Let them actually pay for the damage they do.
good thing it’s taking our water too. are these data centres supplied by Nestlé by any chance? /s
The southern US states will riot if we lose Air Conditioning during the summer.
My cousin in western PA added solar roofing and generates more power daily than he consumes, feeding back into the grid.
If data centers are inevitable, solar would make sense to at least help offset. But then, we’d be pissing off the coal and oil barons, so we’re at a crossroads.
Citizens will just eat the cost because those in power are drenched in greed.
It is already standard procedure to cut off industrial users before residential in the event of a power shortage.
And people were bitching about “how the grid can’t handle EVs”…
Great, our elderly will die of heatstroke and lack of their medical machines so people can have chatgpt write corporate emails back and forth to each other.
I hate this fucking timeline
But AI and giant data mines are going to save us all!
They are building big barriers around the ones in New Albany Ohio so folks cant investigate what emissions they are actually off putting.
What a fucking insane world we live in, I really could have never imagined it. People will lose access to electricity so that internet dipshits can generate memes and porn. There will be families with no AC in the summer so that virtual girlfriends can stay online
Point the finger at Utility companies and regulators – they approved all this demand on their grids.
I’m sure happy that no fascist is canceling offshore wind farms that would help generate more electricity!
Data centers should be forced to use renewable energy building the infrastructure themselves. Make your own energy!
Feels like these data centers won’t survive rolling blackouts, they aren’t super durable and I don’t think those around them have a big soft spot for them.
New York gonna be a beacon bc they are making themselves unattractive to data centers and aren’t included in the electricity conglomerate mentioned.
It’s truly starting to turn into a dystopian future.
Well we know where we can all go to get plenty of diesel for our generators, then. Sure, there might be a security guard or two to deal with, but that’s a them problem.
It’s cause they need all that electricity to power more AI slop, isn’t it?
*clicks on article*
Gee, I’m shocked.
Wow what year is it?
I’m sorry but this should piss off business leaders all across America. I don’t care how much money AI is saving you, if the lights aren’t on and your computers aren’t running unless you got people standing there making paper tickets you’re not making money.