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Captialism is really good at efficiency. But it is not so good at allocation, specifically for essential goods, and that's the problem here.

• terminalshort 1y ago
  How do you define what is an essential good here? For electricity I would place most residential usage near the bottom in priority and definitely below a datacenter. People complaining about facing a tradeoff between setting the thermostat a couple degrees higher this summer or facing a higher power bill just doesn't get much sympathy from me.
  • jimbokun 1y ago
    Why do you want to subsidize the data centers of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world?
  • LargeWu 1y ago
    If you view powering people's homes as a lower priority than powering a data center then there is no reasonable discussion to be had here.