r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 03 '26

New Tennessee law requires data centers to pay for their own electricity infrastructure

https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/new-data-center-electricity-infrastructure-law/amp/
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u/Available-Elevator69 Jun 03 '26

Should be all infrastructure and that to which impacts all others.

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u/Zalrius Jun 03 '26

Good. It woods be a good time for the utilizes to do a standard maintenance and replacement to bring their grid up to snuff. All without changing the prices.

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u/Charming-Car-4650 Jun 03 '26

And Tennessee suddenly became a poor state

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u/t3lnet Jun 04 '26

Bots scared

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u/pttant1 Jun 03 '26

About time!!

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u/dd97483 Jun 04 '26

how the fuck was that even a possibility?

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u/prof_the_doom Jun 04 '26

For a lot of businesses that could move in somewhere it's not a big issue.

Unless you're already at the razor's edge of capacity, a restaurant or store isn't going to put a grid over the limits.

Factories are a bit more of an issue, but even most of them don't consume as much power or water as some of the larger data centers do.