So households will pay higher prices because of this shortage. It’s time to separate markets and prices between vital and non vital stuff and make the non vital market bear the costs of these higher prices. That makes it more fair.
Also why can’t these datacenters be in the desert? Use daytime solar and wind down at night. Follow the sun.
The study this cites has data centre (so not just AI but all internet stuff) rising to 300TWh by 2030. Two years ago the USA’s power usage was 4000TWh a year. So in about 6 years time they estimate that data centres will be using about 8% of 2022’s electricity usage, up from currently about 4%. An increase sure, but hardly one that’s going to move electricity prices significantly.
So households will pay higher prices because of this shortage. It’s time to separate markets and prices between vital and non vital stuff and make the non vital market bear the costs of these higher prices. That makes it more fair.
Also why can’t these datacenters be in the desert? Use daytime solar and wind down at night. Follow the sun.
They can be after locals provide tax rebates and feds provide an interest free loan!
Did microshit want to reopen three mile island but only after taxpayers pays for it?
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The study this cites has data centre (so not just AI but all internet stuff) rising to 300TWh by 2030. Two years ago the USA’s power usage was 4000TWh a year. So in about 6 years time they estimate that data centres will be using about 8% of 2022’s electricity usage, up from currently about 4%. An increase sure, but hardly one that’s going to move electricity prices significantly.
That not how prices work in a shortage.
If EV get out of their slump, they will devour every last electron that we have and we will need 10 times the current production.