It's funny, whenever they refer to "competition", they mean Intel, whereas they should worry about Apple, too, especially as far as efficiency is concerned.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apple-takes-90-of-arm-pc...
Efficiency is critical on laptops, but not really on desktops. Electricity is incredibly cheap.
if you left a 300 watt desktop computer on 24x7 it would use ~$260 in electricity for the year.
https://energyusecalculator.com/electricity_incandescent.htm
it works out to $0.72 a day, a cup of coffee costs more
Beware, this is something that might change at short notice. Starting from October I'm paying 0.28€/kWh, making the daily 7.2kWh cost 2.02€, which would indeed buy me a cardboard cup of coffee at the kiosk.
There really isn't too many reasons why electricity should have "shock pricing" like this.
Here (Ontario) electricy prices are fairly flat over long time periods. https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...
probably because once the plants are built, the cost to maintain them is fairly fixed?
Off peak power is 8.2 kwh Feb 8, 2022 and was 8.7 back on Nov 1, 2016
in order for this to change, it requires government approvals so it wont be "changing at short notice".
They made a choice, now they see the results of the decision?
Maybe this will be a catalyst to revive nuclear?
Perhaps our shitty leaders can stop the "we hate carbon" mantra and start selling our massive natural gas supplies to Europe removing the shortages?
2. Politicians and their constituents often have many priorities other than electricity prices.
One thing is for sure, countries with the cheapest power are definitely not countries known for their great politicians.
If your politicians are not concerned about energy policy, you did not elect the right ones. Politicians should have the same concerns as those they represent.
Here (Ontario) we had the liberals who implemented many disastrous "green energy" programs including "fixed rate" contracts well above market rates. This resulted in substantial increases in our rates.
The price of electricity became a major election issue and when an election year came, the Liberals were decimated. They not only lost the election, but also lost party status.
Our politicians have a lot of influence over electricity rates including direct intervention:
- January 18, 2022 - Fixed Electricity Price The Ontario government has announced that electricity prices are to be set at the off-peak price of 8.2 cents per kilowatt-hour, 24 hours per day for 21 days starting January 18, 2022, until the end of day February 7, 2022, for all Regulated Price Plan customers. Read the government's news release and our FAQs.
-June 1, 2020 - Fixed Electricity Price The Government of Ontario introduced a fixed electricity price of 12.8 ¢/kWh for consumers paying time-of-use prices to support them while Ontario plans the safe and gradual re-opening of the province. Read the government’s news release and our FAQs
If your government has zero control over your markets, maybe you should ask if this is in your best interest?
Your chart proves very little. on the opposite end of the scale (expensive power) are many countries with questionable politicians as well?
Canada has some of the cheapest power for a free democracy, not sure why you think it is particularly worthy of criticism for high energy prices. You can thank your wealth of resources for that.
Our electricity prices going back to 2006 : https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...
It has gone up over time, but no "shock price hikes". To change the rate, you need government approval and politicians are not fond of hiking rates and losing votes.
Basic essentials need "user fees" so there is not blatant waste, but perhaps having controls in place is a good thing?
In Ontario (and most of Canada) we regulate Natural gas, electricity and water rates to prevent "gouging". Power rates in Quebec are even lower thanks to their massive hydro electric generation which is extremely cheap and this is passed to the consumers. Ontario is mostly Nuclear, which costs more to generate vs hydro hence our higher rates.
Well, it's a long story, but in short, Germany insisted on gas from Russia for two reasons: 1) it was cheaper than from other sources, 2) politicians hoped that they can somehow civilize Putin in this way. It didn't work well, and Mrs Merkel is embarrassed by it (I don't even mention previous chancellors).
https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...
If people value efficiency, they can buy energy efficient CPU's and not the latest and greatest high-power CPU's from AMD, which is what this thread is about?
Apple is a package deal and as such doesn’t cut into AMD’s market for console chips, servers or gaming systems.
Historically, it's never been a problem. One of my first distros was Yellow Dog Linux. There will be many more in the future.