AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
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Re: AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
#3Why aren't the data centers footing the bill? If they want to suddenly spawn GW of load out of thin air then they can pay for the needed infrastructure without pushing that burden to other customers. Power companies have demand metering which offsets the cost of ensuring there is capacity available for commercial and industrial customer loads. Something similar should be levied against large single point of use customers like this.
Re: AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
#4Why aren't the data centers footing the bill? If they want to suddenly spawn GW of load out of thin air then they can pay for the needed infrastructure without pushing that burden to other customers. Power companies have demand metering which offsets the cost of ensuring there is capacity available for commercial and industrial customer loads. Something similar should be levied against large single point of use custo…
Similar to why do wealthy owners of sports teams make the public pay for their new stadiums or threaten to move the team?
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#5The map in this article just shows density of data centers in each state. They do cite this [newsweek article](https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-electricity-costs-in-ever...) which does include a table that shows residential electricity cost changes by state.
Re: AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
#6Why aren't the data centers footing the bill? If they want to suddenly spawn GW of load out of thin air then they can pay for the needed infrastructure without pushing that burden to other customers. Power companies have demand metering which offsets the cost of ensuring there is capacity available for commercial and industrial customer loads. Something similar should be levied against large single point of use custo…
> Why aren't the data centers footing the bill?
Because they can make the rest of us pay for it and historically there's been little pushback against that. That's changing, but that's why they shove it off on the rest of us.
Socialize costs, privatize gains. If they didn't try to make someone else pay for it, some activist shareholder might attempt to make them try it. Then all of the other players in the space copy the same playbook and now it's practically mandated that if you want to compete in the data center development market, you must make someone else pay for the electricity, lest the returns on such an investment lag behind those who do.
Re: AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
#7Crap article. Why is it filled with LLM-isms?
- "The state-level numbers make that abstract claim concrete"
- "That’s not a market failure. That’s a policy choice."
And the map doesn't seem to link with the information in the article, and states like Hawaii don't link up at all with the points made. Very little data to back it up too, and instead it's linking to its own site. One weird example is when Microsoft is mentioned in regard to covering its own costs, but the link goes to an article about a protest at a Microsoft data center and has nothing to do with the pledge.
A brief skim of a few other articles on the site have similar issues. Is there a way to ignore or down-vote an entire domain?
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#8The map is a sad attempt at a choropleth with no legend, no hover or interactivity, and no information whatsoever other than opacity.
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#9There is incredible irony in having a giant distracting color swirly and unnecessary AI tab on the right side of the article.
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#10Its not even true. Paradoxically they lower power bills.