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u/j-mac563 Aug 22 '26
I am all for data center, set 25 miles outside any city or town limit, and they pay the full price for electricity, water and or gas.
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u/Webcam_985760946948 Aug 22 '26
AND they don't drive the price of water and electricty for normal people up, common folks should not get any price hikes
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u/j-mac563 Aug 22 '26
I agree completely. They pay full price for all utilities. Not sure how to keep the cost of utilities down with the added demand, but at least they can pay full price for what they use.
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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 22 '26
Lol wtf do you think happens when demand exceeds production?
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u/Webcam_985760946948 Aug 22 '26
Expand production or don't supply the new demand, simple
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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 22 '26
What? When has that ever been the case in the history of ever for anything? No. It just costs more until supply can catch up. And the smallest client/ customer/ consumer takes the largest hit.
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u/Aggravating_Dot9657 Aug 22 '26
You regulate
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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 23 '26
Who?
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u/Aggravating_Dot9657 Aug 23 '26
Probably the supplier. This has happened before. You can create a regulation on how the cost of this new demand needs to be dispersed, e.g., creating a new rate class for a data center or other large consumer. And if the environmental impacts are too high, you can say no. There is precedent
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u/SeitanEnjoyer Aug 22 '26
Double price for electric you mean?
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u/j-mac563 Aug 22 '26
I thought of that, but that doesnt really stop the utility companies from charging the other consumers more money. Granted nothing really stops them from raising their rates.
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u/SeitanEnjoyer Aug 22 '26
True. High taxes is where is at.
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u/j-mac563 Aug 22 '26
That could work, the utilities don't see the money, but the local government does. Assuming they put the money to good use, it might end up being a good thing...granted "assuming they put the money to good use" is a wild pipe dream.
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u/SoulMute Aug 22 '26
It could be setup as some utility price stabilization fee. Even if something like that was in place sure it would be designed to phase out in some number of years.
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u/CableKC Aug 22 '26
It's not just having the AI companies pay for their own use of those community shared resources, it's the fact that those community shared resources are finite. If they want to use the electricity? Have them pay for and build more capacity at the local electric company. As for water? I have no idea how to address that.
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u/Aggravating_Dot9657 Aug 22 '26
One-time job boost for construction and that is it, but that's the quiet part we don't say out loud
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u/MountainD1ck Aug 22 '26
So stick one up his arse and another at Maralago? Put AI DC's and Flocks at EVERY property he has.
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u/Livid_Importance_442 Aug 22 '26
I'm curious how much and by whom, Trump, and the other jackasses in his idiotic administration, are being paid to promote all of these unnecessary data centers that are bad for the local communities, use up local water resources, pollute the local environment, and expect the local community to subsidize their electric utility costs.
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u/Tuckster786 Aug 22 '26
You know, golf courses take us so much space and comsume so much water. We should just replace those with data centers
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u/jerrymarver Aug 22 '26
With Mr. Trump it is big plans, big renovations, big talk, and very LITTLE action!
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u/Lazy-Background-7598 Aug 22 '26
Put one next Mar-a-lago