Here’s the crux of the article for you.
In just two years, starting in 2022, residential electricity prices rose by 10%, while commercial prices increased by only 3%, and industrial electricity prices fell by 2%.
Even if you don't like or use ai, you're forced to pay for it
The working class get the 'get fucked' tax on top of the costs. Companies get cheap power to make more money.
I'd like to see this graph with the EU power costs. I pay AVG € 0,27 per kWh now. Used to be € 0,20 before the attack on Ukraine began. That's a 35% increase.
It's what the maga working class voted for. That, and cruel deportations.
You think fucking over the working class is MAGA specific? Fucking us over is 100% bipartisan.
Scratch a both sideser, find Russian agitprop. Every goddamn time.
That's cute when liberals try to co-opt phrases they don't know how to use.
Are Russians in the room with you right now?
The AI data centers and crypto miners should be paying much higher rates than everyone else.
This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.
"All politics is local."
In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.
Don't know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well...
We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.
You'll find that representative democracy is not all that representative.
My city still owns the utilities and the council doubles as the utility board. They've been trying to privatize it, but it's very contentious. Rightly so.
The lowest rate I can find here in Texas was triple what I was paying last year.
ok damnit, how many more servers do i need to install.....
God don’t I know it. Looking at 500 dollar a month electric bills and I’m possibly disconnecting my heat pump.
Where are you? That's what I pay a year, granted I live in a shoebox.
Under the boot of Georgia power.
Well I'm sure you'll be heating your place with Venezula heavy sour by next week!
2024 and 2025 not included in their data.
Here in Germany we have balcony solar panels. They are just plugged into a socket - no electrical installation needed - and pay off quickly.
I have something like that I bought here in the US but the power generated won't power the whole home. It does charge my emergency battery though for when the power is out.
Right but the way I understand it is if you get the plug in style and let it generate some power during the day it will offset your usage and save you money on the bill.
Yes, lile that. There are also types (like the Anker generators for mobile homes / boats etc) which can run stand-alone, but the German balkony solar panels just add cheap supply to the domestic power use by plugging it into the household AC system.
I think you guys running 220 through the whole house is why we don't have that stateside, just a guess.
Yes, I am Fucking Pissed at my energy bills for the last 6 months. Like WTH. It is like $500 a month vs what was $300 max. I told my husband... it is time to start investing in solar generators. We are getting screwed for some stupid tech boy.
I would love if this creates some kind of decentralized energy network. You know how you can sell your energy back to the grid when you have solar surplus? We should have the option of choosing the rate too. If they don’t want to pay our prices, they don’t need our electricity,
You know how you can sell your energy back to the grid when you have solar surplus?
I know this is for the USA, but I'd like to point out something really fucked: in Denmark, if you don't use the energy your solar power produces, YOU have to pay the energy company for the extra electricity you put into the grid! Like... What‽‽‽
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