We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]

Americans are discovering the massive underinvestment in the electrical grid. When you live in San Francisco, you can experience several power outages during the summer, and it's perfectly normal to have a generator at home. If you live like me in France, you can go several years without a power outage. You don't maintain your infrastructure, so you pay ridiculously low costs. And then, you're caught up in reality, here, dominated by data centers. And it's the fault of the GAFAMs ;)

Americans have to deal with the cost of living near data centres, and everyone on the planet has to deal with global warming. At least the AI companies are providing a free tier that almost anyone with internet can use.

This ignores that the French have massively underinvested in the replacement for the nuclear fleet, and the maintenance of the existing one.

Should we all pretend that half the French nuclear fleet was not offline at the height of the energy crisis? A large portion of the european energy crisis came from the French nuclear power not delivering.

A large renewable buildout should be ongoing in France but wasting money on dead-end subsidies for new built nuclear power seems to be what the French people and politicans wants.

We're seeing a huge number of closures coming in the next decades and the politicians can't even agree on the bonkers large subsidy program for the first 6 EPR2 reactors. Maybe targetting some new power on the grid by 2040? If we're lucky with the construction timeline, at a cool cost of ~20 cents per kWh excluding subsidies.