Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
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#2Not just bills. These data centers, a major driver of new energy use, are contributing to climate change. Sadly it seems to be another way for large companies to offload externalities onto the public.
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#5But the vast majority of my $500+ a month PG&E bill is for transmission, not generation.
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> “… grandmother knows about AI energy demand.”
Uh huh. Tell us more about how gramma should have planned for the AI future.
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#7But the vast majority of my $500+ a month PG&E bill is for transmission, not generation.
And according TFA, those poles and wires for transmission are a large part of the increase in costs that are forecasted.
Ideally, the folks who request the new plants and transmission lines pay for them, but it appears tech cos are attempting to pass the transmission cost burden onto residential consumers.
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#8But the vast majority of my $500+ a month PG&E bill is for transmission, not generation.
500 a month sounds steep. I'm assuming you live somewhere that requires AC every day?
The article referred to driving prices up from 2020 due to making the infrastructure stronger by as much as 30%. Which, yeah, about 150ish of your bill.
It is less clear on how much it will need to go up because of increased demand? The prediction is 8%. Which, again, not nothing. But it is telling that there is more increase from infrastructure than there is generation? I don't know that that will change?
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#9this is nonsense and the author even admits it
> In the coming years, artificial intelligence could turbocharge those increases
the cost of residential power is going up because of the shift away from natural gas towards solar
failing to admit this or worse lying about it is not going to actually help long term
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Tech companies are trying to lock the market and create monopolies to abuse later. And have pretty much established track record or genuinely not caring who or how they harm ... or even brag about it.
Tech companies literally brag about disruption, about making groups of people obsolete and dont even pretend their compliance with rules is anything but bad faith.
Like common here. We as a tech lost the goodwill because of the culture of people we celebrate.