Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.

JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• morto@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even if you don’t like or use ai, you’re forced to pay for it

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• aaa@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But why is it this way? Why wouldn’t they want to charge both groups more for a higher profit margin?

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  • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t want to upset corporate overlords.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Partly because doing so risks that they might decide to invest in their own production instead, and therefore not buy any electricity from you at all which would result in loss of demand and a reduction in overall electricity cost. Like how rising a bus ticket fare by 10% means you will lose some customers because they decide to walk instead, so your profit increase will be lower than that 10%. Raise it too much, and almost everyone walks, and you sell no tickets.

      And it’s a lot harder to build your solar farm if you are a single person living in an apartment building.

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      • MalMen@masto.pt ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        @JohnEdwa @Nikelui that make sense...

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    • gallowshumor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t get it either. Electricity providers have a monopoly based on location. It’s not like I get to choose whose wires I want to hook up to, there’s one choice. So why would the power company choose to give anyone a deal? I get that during the planning stage they could be courting various locations but still I don’t really get it.

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  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s easier to screw over consumers than businesses.

    Busunesses like to complain. They have long-term contracts. They have a lot of purchase power. They’re more likely tp swotch to a competitor. When they threaten, they’re more likely to go through with it. Since they have both money to burn and employees to blackmail with pay cuts.

    Anmong other things.

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• trougnouf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I pay 40c/kWh ^^’

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