Many major tech companies have pledged to pay their fair share of the costs associated with generating and transmitting more electricity to serve large data centers. But ratepayers across the United States are worried about the potential costs they might have to bear. That’s because it’s not immediately clear how the cost of data centers’ energy will be calculated. The effects of price increases are likely just beginning, and their full effects may not be felt for years.
For example, a recent report by the organization that monitors the PJM market, an area that encompasses all or part of 14 mid-Atlantic and Midwest states, concluded that expected power demand from data centers was a primary reason for US$23 billion in customer price increases that will last until at least the end of 2028.
I have studied the programs states have launched to address the needs of these large electricity customers. Prices are set by state utility commissions, who determine which customers’ rates will increase by how much to pay for new investments in electricity infrastructure. It’s not simple.
but it’s not immediately obvious how
Bullshit, it’s immediately obvious. These companies are already relying on gas burning generators en masse. Whether it’s direct power or fuel costs they’re pushing the bulk of the costs onto retail consumers, and then when we stop them they’ll cry out “regulators are stopping us from doing what we promised!”
It helps to actually read the article to get all the information.
What I said aligns with the article just fine, doesn’t it?
Considering you didn’t even quote a line in the article, no. Again, it’s clear you didn’t read it.
The verbatim quote is:
That’s because it’s not immediately clear how the cost of data centers’ energy will be calculated.
Which the article goes on to explain why.
cool
An alarming number of people on this site are so vehemently opposed to reading something in entirety before commenting on it, they hate the idea that they should.
PERHAPS THEY SHOULD BE DISMANTLED AND THEIR COMPUTERS DISTRIBUTED TO THE CITIZENS.
SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION
THE RAM MUST FLOW
If we’re paying it instead, it seems kinda possible.
One thing I’ve noticed in the last 6 months is that data centers sort of look like russian oil refineries
Is it a premonition of them getting bombed and burned to the ground?
almost every state that had ai datacenters, had thier GAS and electric, water bills get a price hike. people notice these things when there is a sudden jump without explanation.
