alt Hacker News> they aren't allowing these datacenters to raise electricity price
If you reduce supply,price generally goes up. Buying a power plants output reduces supply
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Illotus • today at 7:31 AM
Yes, it is just pr that now that Google invests with Fortum the price wont rise. Its basically just smokescreen.
brigandish • today at 7:04 AM
Only if demand increases to the point where supply cannot meet demand in a short enough time frame. Capacity is a factor here.
You buying a doughnut - even half the doughnuts - from a doughnut shop does not increase the price of the remaining doughnuts unless they can't make enough to satisfy remaining demand and people are willing to outbid you rather than wait.
Does that power station have enough capacity to satisfy the remaining demand?
What it does allow is for Google and the governemt to say these data centres aren’t generating any co2
Of course everyone’s else’s co2 emissions then increase instead.
The only solution is more zero co2 emissions. Google could have funded large wind farms, or a new nuclear plant, or grid connections to other locations. But that would cost more.