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My home electric bill just went up, with the utility company blaming it on their providers having increased prices due to increased demand. Apparently in some
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
My home electric bill just went up, with the utility company blaming it on their providers having increased prices due to increased demand.
Apparently in some localities AI/datacenter electricity usage is already 10% of total usage, and expected to rapidly climb in coming years. It'd be nice if the cost of extra demand was met by those building the datacenters, but I'm not sure that's going to be the case.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoMy electric provider recently silently raised our rates. My same usage was ~ $20 less a month last year. Honestly, I'm trying to get out of the 'scarcity mentality' of worrying about these sort of little day to day costs. I set my thermostat at a comfy level, and I game on my power hungry pc without restricting myself. It is what it is.