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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move…

Full title: After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/after-severe-76-percent-electricity-price-hikes-due-to-ai-data-centers-virginia-requires-firms-to-pay-for-all-dedicated-upstream-electrical-infrastructure-state-regulators-crack-down-governor-says-move-will-save-civilians-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars
high voltage electricity transmission line towersTom's HardwareAfter severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’This move should prevent future electricity price increases.
BC_viper@BC_viper@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

I dont understand you america, on many things. We do lots of things wrong here, but our power bill is based on usage. If you only use this much, this is your rate and the more you use the higher your rate goes. I sometimes make it to stage 4 power use and thats expensive but it doesnt effect me if I don’t go into that stage.

Higher users pay more without affecting smaller users in other words.

frongt@frongt@lemmy.zip

Replying to @⁨BC_viper@lemmy.world⁩

Because we’re owned by corporations. The datacenter company says “give us a tax break and discount on utilities and we will build a datacenter in your town, which will create x hundred jobs”.

So they do. And a few dozen tradespeople will be contracted to build it, then when it’s done they’ll leave again. A few people stay behind to run the thing, but mostly, datacenters are hands-off lights-out operations.

Somewhere in there, the politicians get a kickback. Probably their cousin owns one of the contracted companies.

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