I remember when building more fiber could only be good. An awful lot of it sits in the ground lost, never used because it was the wrong type or in the wrong spots, or otherwise pointless waste.

Further, electicity price hikes seems like a bad prospect when inflation is already rampant. If you want a datacenter, offer your house for the space instead.

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otterley 5 hours ago | parent [-]

We can generate more electricity, but NIMBY types don't want to approve projects that would add capacity, either.

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sophacles 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's always fun to watch AI zombies wrestle with the idea that sometimes the real humans have different priorities than they do. Usually people are against a lot of those power projects because those very same projects also seem to always raise rates and never deliver the promises of long-term lower rates.

	▲	otterley 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Success doesn’t always look like lower rates, particularly when demand is ever-growing (even when there aren’t new data centers). Success looks like rates not going up faster than inflation, and reliable delivery. I remember well the rolling blackouts in CA in the late 1990s and that sucked. Even the ones in Texas weren’t that long ago. Also, calling well-intended people with whom you disagree “zombies” is inappropriate. Take it elsewhere.