Well of course they should pay for their own power!! They’re private companies! What am I missing here?
“ Data centers must pay for the grid upgrades they require and can’t siphon power from existing power plants, according to the bill. It also directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to update its rules related to transmission lines — which transport electricity — to allow data centers to reduce demand during peak energy hours. “
This seems reasonable to me.
Do water too.
We can’t afford the pedophile class anymore
Lousy dEmOCrAtZ fascist lite GeNoSiDEee
down with the oppressor bourgeoise swine-pigs! I know everything about the American politics! voting is a scam! Newsome is evil genosider! Etc etc
You forgot the /s
I mean . . . I feel like it was pretty prominent. But, yes.
Clearly you’re new to the fediverse.
We use tone modifiers? </sassy gassy urethra turtle>
Clearly you’re confused about my point. I’m saying that the /s is not “prominent” or obvious because we do in fact have idiots who think exactly what the user said in his initial comment.
And yet
You’re negative seven, pal.
i think the sarcasm wasn’t quite thick enough, but it was noticeable. that’s the danger of using sarcasm tho, sometimes you fall flat.
What?
It’s just AIPAC engineered blue MAGA bullshit.
Stand by.
…okay
I don’t get it. Why aren’t they already paying for their power? Why is this bill necessary? It sounds like common fucking sense to me, so why isn’t that the default?
So who’s paying for their power now?
They do pay for their power. The bill would require them to pay for grid upgrades that their usage makes necessary.
Well yeah, but my question was: why does this need a bill at all? By default they should pay for their own shit.
The grid itself is public property serviced by contractors using public funds. Datacenters will overwhelm that grid without extreme improvements.
So unless they’re forced to pay for it, citizens will foot the bill.
I really hope this gets passed, but it sounds like something Trump’s buddies would be against.
At least my provider, when they need to build a new plant or do capacity upgrades, they get the PSC to give them blanket increases in service charge or kWh-rate, on the basis that everybody contributes to the higher demand. Now we’ve got single customers claiming they want the full output of two or three power plants, and why should I pay the mortgage on those plants for 20 years? When the data center will be gone in 5?
We are.
Or in other words, as the cons would say - Schiff and other Democrats are extremists.
I don’t understand. Did we not already have that rule?
No, electricity bills have been skyrocketing all over the US because electric companies have been passing the costs incurred by AI data centers onto the nearby residents. The AI companies don’t want to pay for it.
How about pay for ALL the power?
Nah, I think we should give them all the power. All at once.
They need lots of energy. Kinetic energy.
Well if we deliver too much power all at once it’ll… Ooooooooooh.
How is this not the default?
We are doomed, what a bunch of clowns
Data Centers should be forced to pay to return the cost of power by consumers to normal. So as Datacenters buy power at the going rate, increasing price, they will also subsidize consumers to the point that power costs are the same as if there were no Datacenter.
Also, LLMs are worthless and will burn life away from this planet.
If I’m not sharing the dollars, I’m not paying for the volts.
Or the stuff that transmits/makes the volts.
But data center owners will sue and it’ll go to the SC and they’ll rule corporations are citizens and therefore tax payers pay.
Please don’t let this blasphemy go. They’re using your fresh water, at your expense, for THEIR benefits. For AI clankers who cant fix an Excel sheet properly.
Even better, they are using OUR money to put everyone they possibly can out of work.
Why aren’t they paying for their own power?
They’re not paying for additive demand. If grid updates or plant expansions cost $1b then that’s distributed across all customers equally based on their consumption. So let’s say there’s 1m customers and the utility spread the costs over 10 years… $100 more per customer assuming equal consumption across.
Schiff is proposing the data center itself is saddled with the $1b and all other customers bills are held flat.
Free market bro. People have a market and you just show up and take what ya want.
After you’ve already made a billion.
Because it’s cheaper to bribe officials to make the locals pay for it.
Not just pay for their own power, TAX THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.
They’re in a hurry because there’s a FUCKTON of cash in it, we need to TAX them like we ACTUALLY KNOW THAT.
This country is completely dysfunctional.
That’s shit.
We need it to be renewable power.
if they have to pay for it, so will they.
