Post #57108
2025-12-12 18:08 UTC
Replies (12)
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@xenomor@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 18:38
I just don’t understand why this is a difficult question. Make the data centers fund their own power needs. End of story.
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@IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 2025-12-12 18:38
Obviously the honest taxpayer and not the greedy billionaires.
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@mimreos@piefed.social 2025-12-12 19:13
As pointed out in the article, because datacenters are pretty fast to build, new power plants need to start construction roughly 1 year before the datacenter starts construction. But that leaves the utilities with alle the risk, unless a robust agreement is in place with the datacenter. What happens if several power plants start construction, but the AI bubbles bursts, and the datacenters are cancelled?
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@Kanda@reddthat.com 2025-12-12 19:50
Obviously the public so that a few may get rich
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@NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2025-12-12 20:27
According to betteridge's law: No.
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@yggstyle@lemmy.world 2025-12-13 02:05
Datacenter. The end. Datacenters build their own micro power plants for uptime anyway. This is a line item and an investment. Little Timmy’s parents need to feed little Timmy… Not finance some techbro or deluded CLevel’s fomo into the next big bubble.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2025-12-13 11:17
The data center provider. Why is that even a question?
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2025-12-13 15:05
The people who want more power. Ie, the data center. You want it? You bought it.
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@Kintarian@lemmy.world 2025-12-13 15:17
Poor people, naturally
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@ninexe@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-14 04:19
Raise taxes on the working class.
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@mcv@lemmy.zip 2025-12-15 07:48
I would suggest requiring these datacenters to also invest in sufficient green energy to power them.
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@Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2025-12-12 18:18
Oh no! A struggling utility! I wonder where excess money is flowing? What could possibly fund these upgrades? -[insert generalized doom & gloom] - [https://energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-struggled-utility-ceos-pay-spiked-last-year/](https://energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-struggled-utility-ceos-pay-spiked-last-year/)