Which means of course instead of charging the data centers for more since they’re using it proportionately more, they charge everybody individually the same per diem rate. Honestly if you use more you should have to pay proportionately more. Oh you use 80% more than the average? You pay 80% more than the average. Sigh. Like the rich people would ever allow that to happen.
Right? We have this system in Mexico on top of government subsidies. If I go slightly above one period, I’m placed at a higher tier for a little while and pay more per kWh until I drop my usage. It blows my mind that this isn’t a thing in the USA.
The huge companies that use all that electricity would never allow that to happen. We live in capitalist hell.
Hell they should get it cheaper because theyre such big customers.
This is also happening for water. They could use closed cooling systems, but water is so cheap for them it’s considered a waste of money to not use evaporative cooling .
The Australian government won’t allow cooling towers on its new data centres. A dry continent can’t afford the waste. A lot of legacy stuff though.
I just keep getting more and more grateful for living here huh
Same here, south of the US border. I hope my government takes what happened to them as a warning and takes steps to work towards not doing any of that.