alt Hacker NewsI'm surprised that the 404 Media article does not mention anything about this. At least, searching for the word "Clean" did not return any results.
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nonethewiser • today at 7:15 PM
The article is shit.
- electricity costs are rising
- there are many data centers
- claims data centers raise costs
- never actually shows how these new data centers are driving up electricity costs
Funny. They imply causation but never show it. If they had evidence that data centers caused this 25% increase, or a large percentage of it, dont you think they would show it?
Actually, you could write the exact same article but sub out data centers with the clean energy rollout.
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Coal was made unprofitable by fiat and the plants were demolished (supply decreased).
Then, datacenters (demand increased, to put it mildly).
The explanation that one chooses for this is a function of one's other politics but the fact is, one has become a political rallying cry (opposition to demand increase) and the other (blame for supply decrease) has not, and this is the discussion we find ourselves in.