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Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.
by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.
- nemomarx 6mo agohttps://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/ https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers... It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region?
- rockemsockem 6mo agoSounds like a great idea
- dymk 6mo agoLike how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right?
- rockemsockem 6mo agoYes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
- dymk 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
- rockemsockem 6mo agoCool, one blip. https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_timelines/trends_in_dram_price_per_gigabyte https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_time...