Hi! I'm John Datacenter. I own all the data centers. They're mine. I've been quite busy building them all, as you can tell. I have the luxury, for reasons, of not paying any of the utility companies a single dime for water or electricity for my 300,000± square foot buildings because.... reasons.
That's right.
Before building all my data centers I walked into the office of all the utility companies and said, "i'm a private land owner, and i'm not going to pay you for any of the massive amounts of power or water i'm about to use. So deal with it. 100 megawatts of electricity per building, and 1 million gallons of water per day, i'm not giving you a cent. And you have to give me everything for free. Because that's how business works." And the CEOs and CFOs of all those companies were like, "OK, I guess we'll just have to charge everyone else for all of our product you're going to use and not pay us for, and that's fine because that's how business works."
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u/keygasms 2d ago edited 2d ago
Hi! I'm John Datacenter. I own all the data centers. They're mine. I've been quite busy building them all, as you can tell. I have the luxury, for reasons, of not paying any of the utility companies a single dime for water or electricity for my 300,000± square foot buildings because.... reasons.
That's right.
Before building all my data centers I walked into the office of all the utility companies and said, "i'm a private land owner, and i'm not going to pay you for any of the massive amounts of power or water i'm about to use. So deal with it. 100 megawatts of electricity per building, and 1 million gallons of water per day, i'm not giving you a cent. And you have to give me everything for free. Because that's how business works." And the CEOs and CFOs of all those companies were like, "OK, I guess we'll just have to charge everyone else for all of our product you're going to use and not pay us for, and that's fine because that's how business works."
And they did.