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Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres. (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Brookings: make the data centres pay to build the power plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWs1HQEEHE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260305-power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres - podcast

time: 8 min 47 sec

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[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

if power companies charge consumers $100/month extra, we have no choice except to eat it and grumble about it.

if they charge amazon, google, oracle $100/month extra, they'll spend $100 million to dismantle the company and install toadies at the head of its replacement.