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by that measure Swedish datacenters should be oversubscribed

• halper 4y ago
  That data centres in Sweden pay almost no electricity tax (5 SEK/MWh if I remember correctly) while consumers pay 36 is not popular with everyone. The map doesn't show that Sweden is divided into four areas. SE1 and SE2, the northernmost two and where some data centres are, have prices that most days are in the single-SEK/MWh range while in SE3 the prices might be tens of times higher. SE4, the southernmost area, has even higher prices due to the fact that (1) power is exported to markets where it is even more expensive and (2) because plants have closed down. The transmission capacity between SE3 and SE4 tends to be maxed out (as evidenced by the fact that prices differ). AWS is in SE3, where the electricity is tens to a hundred times more expensive than for Facebook in SE1.
  • moogly 4y ago
    And don't forget that's 36 SEK/MWh minus VAT, so in reality it's 45, and businesses don't pay the VAT of course.