| ▲ | toss1 7 hours ago | |
Yup. And even more outrageous is the power grid upgrades they are demanding. If they need the power grid upgraded to handle the load for their data centers, they should pay 100% of the cost for EVERY part of every upgrade needed for the whole grid, just as a new building typically pays to upgrade the town road accessing it. Making ordinary ratepayers pay even a cent for their upgrades is outrageous. I do not know why the regulators even allow it (yeah, we all do, but it is wrong). | ||
| ▲ | moregrist 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Usually the narrative for externalizing these kinds of costs is that the investment will result in lots of jobs in the upgrade area. Sometimes that materializes. Here the narrative is almost the opposite: pay for our expensive infrastructure and we’ll take all your jobs. It’s a bit mind boggling. One wonders how many friends our SV AI barons will have at the end of the day. | ||
| ▲ | fullstop 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I bought 2x16 (32GB) DDR4 in June for $50. It is now ~$150. I'm kicking myself for not buying the mini PC that I was looking at over the summer. The cost nearly doubled from what it was then. My state keeps trying to add Data Centers in residential areas, but the public seems to be very against it. It will succeed somewhere and I'm sure that there will be a fee on my electric bill for "modernization" or some other bullshit. | ||