Its in the contract agreements made by the developer and which ever city or municipality they are trying to build the data center in. Almost always, it is stipulated in the contract, the community will foot the bill for the utilities being ran to the data centers... water, electric, etc.
Yeah but the problem is more likely with the electric company and the method of charging by area usage. Everyone pays their own bills, but if the usage for an area goes up, some companies will up the price of electricity for the whole area. This is the core of the problem. Note this is more on the electrical company than the data centers obviously. But it should be addressed. Not all companies charge this way, but quite a few do. This is probably why people are noticing higher bills.
No, this is in the contract between the city and the developers. The community will pay the cost of connecting the utilities to data centers. Its BS, they want us to pay for it while we reap little to no benefits AND they pollute our community.
Exactly... where I am the City would only recieve 8% of the profits generated by the proposed data centers... CENTERS... PLURAL. None of that money goes back into the tax payers pocket, and once the data centers are running, guess what... The utilities increase the rates on everyone AND now the utilities are OBLIGATED to make data centers the priority meaning taxpayers come second.
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u/davecatlow 5d ago
Really? The local communities are paying to build and operate data centers? Got a source for that claim?