On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. “Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically — by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next fiscal year. We anticipate more rate increases for electricity in the years ahead,” a copy of the email obtained by 404 Media said (emphasis his).
These data centers should be charged enough that there’s no increase for anyone else in the area. They contribute nothing to the community. The only benefit that can be extracted from them locally is to charge and tax the absolute fuck out of the companies building them in every possible way.
Nah, they should be forced to stop operation until they build renewable power plans that produce 2x the energy that they consume in one day.
They should benefit the community, not just be a net 0.
they contribute higher gas,electiric, water cost to the community, and pollution.
they also give us handy local targets for our vitriol. anyone else feel like they want us fighting datacenters so we aren’t fighting fascisms?
silly They, we got energy enough for two things
Contribute nothing to the community? Are you crazy? They use lots of water. They make a lot of noise. They are typically eyesores. That’s a contribution.
Of sorts.
Those things would be subtractions from the community.
Well not all contributions are positive.
especially if have 37 very close to each other.
Yeah, greater contribution.