• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I just don’t understand why this is a difficult question. Make the data centers fund their own power needs. End of story.

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      8 months ago

      Yes. They can pay to build their own sources of power of their own choosing. Or put more resources into doing data centers more efficiently, their choice.

    • Artisian@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      I find the different ways places answer this question really interesting. By this, I mean the systems we’ve had in place, the committees and applications and rules, for power providing the whole time.

      It is interesting because power is a privately owned monopoly that we regulate to the extreme; so we get all sorts of weird relationships and arrangements. Now we see them all getting stress tested.