Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
It is like Obamacare. You have a person who smokes, gets drunk, eats a lot of sugar, don’t exercise, you pay for their bill through hiked premiums, and overutilization. Hopefully, that sinks in.
how can they get away with this? Are data centers not paying their bills?
When they make up a significant amount of energy usage, the demands for amount and infrastructure like production and transfer increase.
They’re not a consumer like the others in that their impact is much higher than what they pay for in terms of paying consumed power.
The article mentions data centers containing as much power as entire cities.
It is like Obamacare. You have a person who smokes, gets drunk, eats a lot of sugar, don’t exercise, you pay for their bill through hiked premiums, and overutilization. Hopefully, that sinks in.