Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 week agoSo our utility came out and said they have to raise residential rates by a rather large amount, largely because so many data centers are demanding so much power they need to upgrade, so residential rates have to fund that…
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Why raise residential tares and not commercial / industrial rates?
Oh, because businesses are subsidizes through taxes. Of course.