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How would that work? With a flat fee or depending on whether ai companies are tipping the scale to a more expensive marginal price?

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queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Make every kWh above the average power draw have a higher cost, that increases further with every additional kWh.

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Telemachus93@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Colombia has price discrimination for residential areas: households in richer areas have to pay more than those in poorer areas. I don’t know how good the actual implementation works out for the people there, but it was in effect when I was there more than 10 years ago and it still seems to be (see “estratos” here: enel.com.co/…/pliego-tarifario-enel-diciembre-202…). If that is possible for different areas of one city, of course we could make data centers pay more for 1 kWh than a private consumer would.

It just won’t happen in our hyper-capitalist north american and european countries.

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- TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t know how wide spread smart meters are in the US, but it should be fairly simple so have an extra tariff on these kind of consumers, or perhaps just tariffs during peak periods.
  
  At least it could be enforced that the surplus heat from data centers had to be reused in some way, could be residental heating or ptx.
  
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