This is a convoluted rationalization that data centers don’t drive up electricity rates, consumers do. Academic-sounding bullshit that reads like the PR department of a trade group.
epinkston on
Bezos owns WP? And is building 100s of data centers? Not sure if we can say this is credible….makes sense that rising infrastructure costs would increase costs…….but to say data center electrical demand lowers costs is insanely stupid.
TownAfterTown on
I think there are some misunderstandings in this article about the way grids operate and the impact data centers can have. BUT, all of this discussion about finding blame for raising prices as a partisan exercise is very bad for the future of the grid. Maintaining a grid is very complicated, and what causes prices to rise is very complicated, usually with many contributing factors. And the more people we have looking for something the blame price increases on, the less people we have looking to understand what is really happening and what (if anything) should be done about it.
vasjpan002 on
So do not allow crypto and AI on grid. Put infra costs into a public bond authority.
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This is a convoluted rationalization that data centers don’t drive up electricity rates, consumers do. Academic-sounding bullshit that reads like the PR department of a trade group.
Bezos owns WP? And is building 100s of data centers? Not sure if we can say this is credible….makes sense that rising infrastructure costs would increase costs…….but to say data center electrical demand lowers costs is insanely stupid.
I think there are some misunderstandings in this article about the way grids operate and the impact data centers can have. BUT, all of this discussion about finding blame for raising prices as a partisan exercise is very bad for the future of the grid. Maintaining a grid is very complicated, and what causes prices to rise is very complicated, usually with many contributing factors. And the more people we have looking for something the blame price increases on, the less people we have looking to understand what is really happening and what (if anything) should be done about it.
So do not allow crypto and AI on grid. Put infra costs into a public bond authority.