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You're paying thrice:
1: With your spare time in which you give advice on forums and maintain Wikipedia pages. This information is getting slurped up by AI crawlers.
2: Implicitly with your money, to get some new AI doodad on your laptop or your phone, trained on 1.
3: See meme.
And that's why billionaires exists.
Isn't sharing the bill while a small group profits exactly how capitalism works?
Time to molatov cocktail the AI daracenter. A sudden unexpected fire happened. Dunno how 🤷♀️
They're putting data centers in near me (they have been heavily protested, but of course that doesn't do shit, the local government holds lots of meetings that are crowded with people saying they don't want them, and then they shrug and approve them anyway. The last meeting I heard about they just flat out cancelled because too many people were planning on coming and speaking against it). I got a letter from my power company that they're raising electric rates, and would I like to contribute to a fund to help pay other people's bill?
Replace them. Either recruit a candidate or run yourself. Ignoring your voters should have consequences.
Oh I know exactly how I'm voting next election, but the problem is that I live in a conservative area and these dumb fuckers wouldn't vote for their own self interest if you held a gun to their heads, because if they vote for things that benefit them then a brown person or a someone on disability might also benefit.
Not to sidestep it, but at what point is doing personal solar a better deal, if you own that is
Unfortunately I rent an apartment. I'd love to do a solar array on my balcony, but it's small and faces north so I don't think it would be cost effective.
Egg the diesel, sugar the concrete.
Data centers have lobbying force the citizens lack, they can negotiate for better prices.
Data centers also force power grid upgrades, the cost of which gets unfairly distributed to consumers.
And, data centers have the technology to take advantage of peak pricing, running on low power when electricity costs more and amping up when the price is more favorable.
People need to fight back in force, write their representatives, their energy companies, show up to town halls and increase public pressure to make sure data centers are paying their fair share.
I emailed the department of energy asking it why the cost of the data centers energy is being pushed onto the people and I also mentioned how it seems like a direct conflict of interest.
Debt trickles down, money trickles up
Don't you have something like an energy board to protect your citizens against price hikes by power companies.
If we did, it would be populated by MAGAs who would take bribes to let the power company put ALL the costs on the residential consumers. Except for the wealthy neighborhood. They deserve a break, because they're better.
Sounds like getting politically involved is a MAGA-exclusive thing in your country.
People with wealth have more time on their hands and are also more likely to have a mentality that they deserve what they have more than others. Many of them are obsessed with hierarchy whether they realize it or not, allowing them to dismiss the troubles of the commoners with talk of personal responsibility.
You don't need wealth, just using your spare time getting involved is enough to boost the ranks.
And you feel like lacking personal responsibility is gonna change your life?
But there is a personal responsibility to check the job market, get your credit up to a good standing, make sure you read your loan agreement terms, make sure youre not gonna get done learning and go into a saturated field that will no longer exist in 4 to 8 years.
When it comes to investing in yourself: People have to stop investing in bullshit and start investing in practicality.
Why do you think so many people turn to medical professions, hard labor jobs or STEM. They're the only ones left that you can afford and it'll make you a decent ROI where you're not going to be trapped for 50 years in a loan.
I don't really get how the fig leaf of "due to data-centers" is even supposed to work.
They get more demand, so more revenue. Then the fixed costs of the business are spread over more revenue, which is supposed to make the prices better not worse.
I know the profit motive is just extracting whatever the market will bear, but could anyone still explain the reasoning they are trying to make customers believe?
but could anyone still explain the reasoning they are trying to make customers believe?
That's the neat part, they don't have to bother with that!
I don’t really get how the fig leaf of “due to data-centers” is even supposed to work.
It let's them increase their extortionary price hike by more, and blame it on a different extortionist.
Somewhere at the energy company is a person or small team responsible for that message. And those are regular people who also are getting fucked in the ass. Carefully crafted to keep their job (shifting the blame away from the utility slightly), while also letting everyone know who's dick it is in their bumbum
probably need to build new power plants while the existing ones are in overdrive
they could handle that diffeently, bug fleecing regular joe is more fun
I mean, the country chose Trump, what are you expecting?
No, the country did not. Only a fraction of the populace is eligible to vote; a fraction of that fraction actually did vote, and roughly 50% of that fraction voted for Trump. He was voted in by a minority.