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Comment by greenie_beans | Hacker News Reader

watch the cost of electricity go up because the demand created by data centers. i'm building an off grid solar system right now and it ain't cheap! thinking about a future where consumers are competing with data centers for electricity makes me think it might feel cheap in the future, though.

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Datacentre operators want to keep energy costs down and also have capital to make it happen.

weird i didn't know they could build nuclear power plants (surely you are being sarcastic?)

also this is weird i thought electricity prices only get cheaper? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

Yes, tech corps have actually have been investing in nuclear. See some recent discussion:

Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443

Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769

would be great if ai forces better energy. but

> The deal would help enable a revival of Unit 1 of the five-decades-old facility in Pennsylvania that was retired in 2019 due to economic reasons.

i wonder why they stopped producing energy in 2019 even though energy prices have gone up over the five decades?

bro, how much did your electricity cost go up because of millions of people playing games on their 500w+ gpus? by a billion of people watching youtube? by hundreds of millions of women and children scrolling instagram and tiktok 8 hours a day?

this is not the same thing and all the AI CEOs would agree with me. very absurd statement to try to use for your argument.

but here is some data bro! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

Fusion will show up soon dont worry. AI will accelerate its arrival.

Instead of always being 30 years in the future, it's now always 15 years in the future!

good luck w that

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