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Probably corpos following what other corpos do, I doubt there will be recommended guidelines laid out by the government.
I think some places would rather lay off employees over helping them out though.
We'll still be subsidizing electricity and water for the corporations though, my electricity bill went up 47% since last year and that's just from the data-centers, not the war.
Oddly enough, I'm incentivized to use more electricity to lower my bill.
If I go over 1000kWh, my $/kWh gets cut almost in half, meaning if I'm going to use more than 600kWh, I'm incentivized to boil water, mine monero, or run a space heater until I hit 1000kWh or else I'm paying out my ass for it.
This country runs on wasting excessively, these incentives will always be there for corporations to abuse, and I'm sure they get even greater discounts on electricity beyond that 1000kWh discount. I only know about this one because during the summer we had record breaking heat and our air conditioner was on 24/7 for a month.
The peons will always foot the bill, subsidizing the large corporations to burn energy in excess while they force us to skip showers and have our grandparents boil to death in their homes due to blackouts; blackouts that will never affect the datacenters and malls that run air conditioning year-round, even when nobody goes to them.
Surely it's only the electricity over 1000kWh that gets billed at the reduced rate?
No 🙃
Just opened up the spreadsheet again:
1093 kWh was $100.65 in July ($0.09/kWh)
906 kWh was $199.53 in August ($0.22/kWh)
I could've saved $100 in August if I wasted excessively :D
What the fuck?
OP would also get the discounted rate if, instead of wasting the electricity, they used it to charge batteries.
The same way that buying 3 sixpacks of Coke (18) is slightly more expensive than buying a full case (24). If you buy the "extra" six cans, you get a discount. But you wouldn't then walk outside and dump the extra sixpack in the dirt - you'd drink them.
Turning a big potentiometer attached to a cable running straight into the Earth and looking back at the electric company like a contestant on The Price is Right.