Post #3297346

Why is everyone so confused about this? This is not about paying for electricity. It’s about infrastructure. Say you want to open a solar panel factory in Tennessee. You will need 5 MW of power. You go to the utility company and ask if they will be able to provide it. Turns out that they don’t have this capacity in your location and that they will have to add a substation or something. Who should pay for it? Usually the government does. The government supports development of industry and businesses by providing necessary infrastructure. Saying that some businesses now have to pay for the infrastructure themselves is discriminatory. It’s great that they are discriminating datacenters but it’s not obvious or universal.