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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you go on the internet, [b]use ChatGPT,[/b] upload images to the cloud, etc, you’re using a data center. You’re paying for it sooner or later.  The demonization of data centers is frankly ridiculous. In fact. A lot of data centers are contracting with behind the meter generation so they are outside the wholesale electricity generation market. [/quote]

We aren't demonizing data centers generally- that increase has of course been steady as the internet has grown.  What we are demonizing is the massive increase in the past 4 years which is almost solely because of the growth in these "AI" systems which are completely inflated by ridiculous VC money.  The problem is that the increased demand they have cause in the past 4 years is way out of proportion of previous growth, and it has strained all these systems, and the strain has flowed back through the utility systems and to all of us rate payers.  Turn off the "AI" data centers (which will happen naturally in the next year or two as the bubble bursts) and we will all be fine.[/quote]

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