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Seems like the AI companies depending on these data centers should be funding those upgrades, not the folks who don’t even like or want AI!

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If only there were a practical solution to avoid even more utility increases on everyday consumers 🤔

But it would be against the rules of capitalism to charge AI companies directly for the extra costs caused by AI? Please explain to us simple peasants how it works. We don't get it. Or here's another thought - use the excess tax money donated by blue states to the federal government to pay for it.

More on grid and data center flexibility here. The key issue is shifting resources so the grid won't be stressed during peak times. Most of the time, there's plenty of capacity already. www.volts.wtf/p/for-data-c...

And when at least part of AI implodes, the power grid infrastructure will still have to be paid for. Our power bills will not go down.

If the power lines leading into datacenters were somehow cut, torn down or blown up, that would reduce the demand wouldn’t it. I saw what Ukrainian drones are capable of .

I bet if the utility companies weren’t going out for avocado toast every morning they’d be able to afford more infrastructure

Or we could reduce the spread of AI and invest heavily in reliable, renewable energy resources.

No. The companies that own the data centers need to pay their electric bills, just like I pay the electric bill for my house!

Hey guys, I'm building a power plant in my backyard so that I can have more flashy lights on my house. I need you guys to pay for the construction for the plant and the power usage for it because I am an entitled prick who gets what he wants. Thank you.

“Quiet, peasant. You will freeze, and you will like it.”

Eat them! 🍝

👓: We can easily solve the energy crisis AI centers have been causing. Just not the way they want the crisis to be solved.

I love it when "economies of scale" turns into "the tragedy of the commons (feat: midlife kleptocracy)" and the people whose job it is to administrate this stuff away shrug and tell you, "you can't stop this kind of thing from happening anyway I'm taking more of your money."

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The head of the USs largest utility shifts the costs to working Americans? I'm shocked I tells yuh,shocked.

These AI businesses can fund their own (clean) electrical infrastructure. I’m not subsidizing them and any politician who votes for raising my electric rates on their behalf will catch hell from me.

Surely the Ai companies are good for it.

Make data centers pay the high rates. Let the filthy rich blob shoving it down our throats pay for it. I hope it bankrupts them.

AI companies should pay for all infrastructure needed!!

Feed the beast….

Biden’s fault, obviously …

What should fund infrastructure build out? Taxes on tech bro bum-holios who are funding the data center AI ponzi

F AI

Or they threaten to leave. Fuck them.

Utilities are required to keep adequate money reserves for things like this. They're just using AI for an excuse to raise their rates.

What if we just... didn't build all these unnecessary and wasteful power-sucking buildings? What then?? (OR force these companies to install renewables to provide their required power)

While the basis of the assumption is probably true, they will say anything to jack up rates. Historical facts. This is from Feb 12 2026. Did they not know 'capital expenditures' would not need to be inclusive of AI / data centers a mere 5 months ago? #Cmon

Rate hikes? Of course, foisted off on the rate payers, not the companies building these data centers? *headdesk*

Ai told me peewee Herman wears round black glasses. Let's abolish that shit.

...or perhaps the Federal government could be making loans through some sort of, I dunno, program office, to fund the development and installation of new capacity and distribution systems. I know, it's wild, but no bad ideas in a brainstorm right?

Thank you.

Or we can go green. A big windmill farm just opened up and it could possibly deliver more power than the Hoover Dam.

The AI renaissance… the power generation renaissance… the capex renaissance, plus the depreciation tsunami have finally produced a concrete deliverable— darkness… 🤡🤡🤡

You want me to pay more cause you got customers that you probably encouraged via the Chamber to come to your service area knowing they would use a lot of what you sell. But I need to pay? Fuck you.

Hope he’s talking to the companies eagerly deploying data centers that will be consuming all that energy.

"All must share in the suffering so that we may pursue profit from theft"

So make us pay more for electricity to bring more AI on line to take our jobs so we have less. What these tech bros don’t get is that we do get what’s going on, we don’t like it and there will be a point where we no longer, passively, put up with it.

It’s insane to me that trillions will flow into AI in the coming years yet it’s the consumer that will get stomped with utility bill increases while data centers pay like 20% of the rates households pay.