• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 hours ago

    Big Tech calls AI data centers an economic boom. The Senate investigation suggests a different business model: privatize the profits, socialize the electricity bills, collect tax breaks, and make everyone sign NDAs. A 100 MW facility may power through the equivalent of 100,000 homes while creating about 100 permanent jobs. That’s not a jobs program: it’s a subsidy program with servers.

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    17 hours ago

    Fair doesn’t necessarily mean parity, fair in this case should be disallowing it from happening at all. It’s fair they don’t have a share.