You’ll find that representative democracy is not all that representative.
Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.
“All politics is local.”
hark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well…
We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.