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

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156 points xbmcuser | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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yadaeno ◴[04 Sep 25 14:25 UTC] No.45127626[source]▶
I feel like the solution is for the state owned power company to add capacity to scoop up the additional revenue. This is quite literally an opportunity to advance society while generating more tax revenue and *improving* public services.

Blaming tech for using power is regressive, the real issue here is bad energy policy.

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1. insane_dreamer ◴[04 Sep 25 19:50 UTC] No.45131513[source]▶
> add capacity to scoop up the additional revenue.

they are; but Big Tech isn't paying the cost to add that capacity, because it's getting volume discount prices to attract them in the first place. So the utility has to raise prices on everyone else to cover the cost of adding the capacity.

so essentially, all the other consumers are subsidizing the extra power needed for the data centers (instead of the data centers paying for it)