Reminds me of the story of Texas paying bitcoin farms millions of dollars not to use energy during heat waves cbsnews.com/…/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-…
Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And suddenly these same assholes will tell you to turn your ac off because the power grid can’t meet demand for some “mysterious” reason.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But it’s not the AI farm’s fault, because they get paid to turn off during times the grid is under a lot of stress. So they make money 100% of the time, don’t worry!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Genuinely curious - has Texas been getting fewer residential outages since they expanded capacity for crypto mining? I’d imagine the same economics apply here.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno, I’m from New Jersey. I can tell you about New Jersey though. Our two main providers of electric and gas utilities are PSEG and JCPL. Putting aside that they’re both major corporations and those suck, JCPL also sucks at providing the service it basically forces you to get (because there’s obviously no real alternatives), and PSEG is pretty good. I have not had a legitimate (>2 hours) power outage since I bought my home 11+ years ago. Regardless of my good fortune, we experience struggles in presumably the same fashion as much of the country: the hots are hotter and shit is expensive AF.
I’m sorry none of this is relevant.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
or use less water because the AI center needs it to cool off.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Splurge for me, conserve for thee.
Same with water in CA. Industry uses >80% of water in the state and the focus is on 30 second showers and bullying citizens because their representatives have been captured along with their press in the profit machine.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Residential homes use about 12% of the consumed fresh water in the United States.
Their whole industries that scrape a bit of profit off of a huge amount of America’s water. Like exporting alfalfa grown in a desert.