One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive.
All for rezoning golf courses too
All for rezoning golf courses too
Oh, and datacenters alone shouldn't even make electricity more expensive, because rates are regulated. The state regulators have to approve rate raises. Now, are the regulators a bunch of stooges captured by the utilities who always do their bidding? Probably! But that's a good reason to throw your corrupt state politicians out of office and hopefully run them out of town on a rail -- not to protest datacenters.
These new data centers are entirely a speculative buildout of new capacity to support theoretical (and some existing) demand for AI compute.
Is this supposed to scare me or something? I can't even fathom the actual point you are trying to make if it doesn't involve me having an emotional response to this statement.
the people who make this true are the same people who oppose the data centers. if they just let people build solar and data centers neither of those things would be true.
in b4 the 'apples and oranges' cope
Are you counting the externalized data center use of the people in that house?