4 ms·
How long until the AI companies start charging more to people who use AI services, but live in areas that do things like this? NIMBY causes energy prices to go
by didgetmaster 6mo ago
How long until the AI companies start charging more to people who use AI services, but live in areas that do things like this?
NIMBY causes energy prices to go up in areas that won't allow drilling, refining, nuclear or nat gas development, or power lines. When will the same happen for things like AI services?
- yfw 6mo agoLol the corpos having too much power over consumers is because the local residents wont submit? You assume the company cant charge higher anyway out of the goodness of their hearts? This is what unregulated capitalism looks like with no govt oversight.
- bluGill 6mo agoAI results are generally easy to transport - just a few bytes over some fibre. Electric is harder to ship, there is only so much you can put in a wire (even high voltage DC). Widgets (car parts...) are even harder to ship and take longer which is why big things often get final assembly locally.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoThe most expensive AI stuff is the least latency sensitive. A coding agent could be on a different continent and you wouldn't really notice.
- recursive 6mo agoHonestly would be kind of cool if a locality actually had that much power. It could lead to an enclave of people who still value thinking for themselves. In practice I doubt bigcorps would turn down the customers.
- unclad5968 6mo agoWhy would anybody outside of tech care if the cost of AI goes up?