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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have any of you driven through eastern Loudoun lately?

It is a dystopian landscape of data centers everywhere. Data centers do not require a lot of employees. What they do require is huge, huge amounts of energy.

The data centers drive the AI industry and the high tech industry. But they use a lot of energy. Count on your electric bills going through the roof until they figure out alternative energy sources. Within the industry, some are considering nuclear energy to fill the need.[/quote]

If you are a residential customer in Loudoun County, why should your electric bill go up even a penny?  You aren't the ones using all that power.  The data centers should be the ones paying for it.  Residential consumers shouldn't be subsidizing big corporations and their data centers.  This is yet another example of capitalism run amok in America.[/quote]

Ultimately that's a political decision, but the most natural result is that everyone, both residential and commercial, pay more until demand matches supply. Sometimes, increased demand makes a major project (like a whole damn dam) viable, that brings the unit cost back down. [/quote]

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