I wouldn’t mind AI data centers so much if they would just pay their fucking bills like the rest of us. When I get my electric bill (and water bill) I’m charged on a ladder where the more I use, the higher the pricing gets. But for some reason, data centers gobble up all the available electricity and water and yet are given a discount and a subsidy to do so??? Make it make sense.
why not require the data centers to have grid stabilization batter banks and then give individuals full price for their rooftop or balcony solar and such that should be 100% allowed and encouraged.
thinking about it I wonder if grid stabilazation batteries at houses could become worth it if they gave full electric prices to individuals with solar and such. I mean it alone might do a lot to cover all the energy they are sucking and it makes a more robust decentralized grid. so maybe data centers should pay for the grid upkeep along with other corps based on usage and let individuals just buy and sell electricity with no strings.
The main problem is that retail electric prices are mostly not about generating cost; the cost of maintaining wiring, transformers, and such dominates in most places. And rooftop solar is more expensive than utility-scale solar, so it would get crowded out.
see that is why I said the corps should pay for the infrastructure and we encourage individuals to produce massively. it would be the fastest way to build the whole thing out as individuals can have stuff going in less than a year. I mean they are the ones who need it so bad. they could always not build the data centers if its to mch for them.
And that should tell any half-way intelligent person everything they need to know.
Well we already have power so why not let us build these towns where only our employees live… We can self govern too just like Disney does.
- The Trump administration and several US states have laid out a plan to compel technology companies to fund the construction of new power plants to tame surging consumer utility bills and aid data center development.
- The plan involves an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would allow tech companies to bid on 15-year contracts for new electricity generation capacity, helping to secure supplies and curb price volatility.
- The auction would deliver contracts supporting the construction of new power plants, with the goal of accelerating the construction of new power plants and addressing growing tensions over who will bear the costs of rising electricity demand.
