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> Someone has to deal with the utility rate hikes that tend to follow large new consumers Commercial power is often charged differently than residential power,
by JoshTriplett 10mo ago
> Someone has to deal with the utility rate hikes that tend to follow large new consumers
Commercial power is often charged differently than residential power, and there's also nothing that prevents charging disproportionately higher rates for e.g. 90th percentile power usage.
There's nothing inherent that means a data center in a locale should cause individual residential customers to pay more.
- mschuster91 10mo ago> There's nothing inherent that means a data center in a locale should cause individual residential customers to pay more. Well the utility will have to make investments that are on a depreciation schedule anywhere on the scale of 20-50 years... so there will have to be a general rate hike to cover for the bank loan (banks aren't stupid, they want at least something in incoming cashflow increase), and when the AI bubble pops, guess who will have their rates hiked a second or third time? Yup the average consumers.