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myrmepropagandist · 7w
I've been hearing about how datacenters can cause consumer electricity bills to rise. For example, in Ohio bills have increased by about 50% since 2020 while the national average is about 25% (also ba...
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I will be fair, when you start up a new venture it can take some time to know what your needs are, and maybe they are doing their best.

But IDK, the story I've been told about AI would make me expect them needing more power not much less than they planned for.

And... do we really need all this build out to run Grok and make Hank Green cry? Like how inefficient is this stuff? 2/2
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myrmepropagandist · 7w
I'll put it to you this way. Software with AI "in it" isn't 200 tax free data centers in Ohio better than the software I had five years ago. Really I could use my computer from 10 years ago and ... it wouldn't matter at all.