HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
It’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta.
But more than a dozen states have begun taking steps as data centers drive a rapid build-out of power plants and transmission lines.
lol lmao even.
This is a country that tells its citizens to not use AC during peak hours to prevent brownouts and too much pressure on an aging power grid while letting big business do a never-ending draw on the same resources.
Amazon warehouses filled with people don’t have AC. Amazon warehouses filled with robots do have AC.
New York lets the ads run non-stop in Times Square, but the citizens better not use their AC when it’s hot!
No ones gonna do shit about this. We’re balls deep into “profit over people” territory.
Start destroying wasteful infrastructure en masse. That’s really the only solution, but it has to be en masse
“evidence mounts” Like we didn’t know this before the data centers were built.
Here’s a simple solution.
Charge data centers the exact same as the residential rate.
Pop goes the AI bubble.
So the same for cash crops and differently drought becomes a non-issue.
Use more and pay less due to bulk pricing, meanwhile we ‘share the blame’.
Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else.
