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

7 months ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

Today, we’re going through a panel discussion from the Brookings Institution on Monday 2 March on why electricity prices are going up across the United States. Brookings talked to four regulators a…

Brookings: make the data centres pay to build the power plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWs1HQEEHE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/... - podcast

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superfes 23 points 7 months ago

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

Insanity!

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samvines 17 points 7 months ago

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!

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