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HDThoreauntoday at 3:25 AM3 repliesview on HN

I dont know, Id say the enraging thing is that the government is so incompetent and unable to expand electricity supply that datacenters are forced into using loopholes to get power the only way they can.


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hvb2today at 5:43 AM

> Id say the enraging thing is that the government is so incompetent and unable to expand electricity supply

So let's say you're a homebuilder, if I tell you I want a new home and I want to live there tomorrow, you can all of a sudden build it in a day, right?

Electricity use is skyrocketing for various reasons, these datacenters being one of them. There are a lot of countries struggling to keep up with demand. So incompetence? No, probably more like supply lagging demand.

Or ASML and Nvidia and all also are incompetent, because they didn't see demand coming....

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_heimdalltoday at 10:33 AM

That isn't a problem of inept government, its a problem of over regulation and what amount to state-sponsored monopolies in many areas.

We don't need the government to fix it by expanding power grids from the top down, we need free markets allowing competition.

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skywhoppertoday at 8:30 AM

These are the same companies and individuals who are actively working to destroy functional government, and are happily looting the US treasury rather than let it be spent on things such as encouraging more energy production.