Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.”
https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230
Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.”
https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230
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Oh its easily reversible
Data centers should be required to finance and build their own power generation instead of shifting those costs onto residents.
I’m pretty sure we could reverse it if we really wanted to
Irreversible because corporations only increase prices.
Michigan is cooked they opened up the state to datacenters
The titanic was unsinkable.
Mine is almost double from 5 years ago.
The longer that we keep propping up AI the worse and worse everything is getting. Pretty obvious pattern to see. maybe this is the impetus we need to stop succumbing to the trappings of big tech.
This administration gave up on renewables. Could have been avoided.
Idk maybe make the data centers pay for their own energy. Maybe do energy disruption analysis comparing estimated use to currently available power levels and require new energy to be built to meet the increase before the center itself can be activated. Require strict metering at data centers. Require fees for usage over the attested limits.
6 months ago I said these data centers would double your utility bills and got heavily downvoted. I also said gas prices would hit $10 a gallon. I stand by that. American voters fucked around and now…
76% spike is brutal. That’s not inflation. That’s data centers sucking up capacity and passing the cost to everyone else.
The grid wasn’t built for this load. Residential customers are paying for infrastructure that serves AWS and Meta. The report calling it “irreversible” means the damage is done. Rates won’t go back down even if the AI bubble pops.
The real story is who pays. Data centers got the tax breaks. Residents got the higher bills. Same playbook every time.
New transmission lines take a decade to build. The spike is here to stay. Good luck to anyone on a fixed income in those regions. They’re getting crushed.
It’s easy to revere. Make the owners of these data centers pay for all of the region’s resources and energy it’s using rather than the citizens subsidizing their costs.
Killing wind farms and blocking Hormuz (inevitable with the attack) didn’t help
Taxpayers funding the machines that will be used to replace/control them.
current bill has our usage down .2% from last year same billing cycle but our bill is 17% higher. fuck data centers and fuck these greedy corpos.
Utilities like power companies should not be owned by private companies for several reasons, this kind of thing is one of them.
These state needs to own and operate them.
If the oligarchs start paying fair market rates for utilities it will be reversible so fast your head will spin. Of course, the communities are going to pay to tear down the buildings no matter what. That’s built into the business model
That’s absolutely bullshit. The companies that put in these data centres should be on the hook to pay, not everyone else.
If anonymous wants to be helpful hackers, this would be their opportunity to show the truth in their conviction.
Why don’t they charge the data centers for the power they’re using!??? WHY SHOULD THIS BURDEN THE COMMUNITY!!!!!
New York City’s budget deficit was irreversible too.
There are only two things in life that are fundamentally impossible.
1. Perpetual motion
2. Not violently shitting yourself after eating a 10 lb bag of haribo sugarless gummy bears.
Dude but think how rich a handful of guys are gonna be. So worth it
Thanks maga for getting rid of other sources of energy like wind farms and solar
All data centers are resource sinks. They need to disclose how much resources they use.
How the fuck is this shit subsidized by the citizens? Absolutely incomprehensible. Fuck these AI companies.
It IS reversible. Charge them a premium rate and stop giving away the store when proposing places to put these data centers. Make them build their own infrastructure.
AI isn’t inevitable. It’s being forced upon the public in the name of profit. It’s that simple and there’s nothing normal people can do because we expect elected officials to safeguard us from this.
Some one called the US economy a Ponzi scheme. The economy is a piece of a larger pie if you ask me.