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Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres. (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Brookings: make the data centres pay to build the power plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWs1HQEEHE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260305-power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres - podcast

time: 8 min 47 sec

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[–] samvines@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

Think of all those poor billionaires who won't be able to afford that 29th yacht if we made them pay their fair share instead of externalising their costs onto an already stretched general.public!