Thanks trump! Thanks ai bubble!
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Yeah, they are paying for all the datacenters.
The datacenters that largely received State tax exemptions, and only need a skeleton crew of people to operate. So they're not even contributing to the local economy.
Not the economy of the 99% anyway. I worry for the future of the world with these fucking things. Countries needing money are going to allow these to be built when companies throw enough money and lobby governments. The damage they will do to the environment will be tragic. So many are going up so quickly with not a thought to how they affect the area they're built. From what I have seen they consume massive amounts of fresh water and heat the air around them venting into the atmosphere. This is surely going to have lasting affects on the earth (if enough are built). The AI bubble is just inane, its money laundering at the grandest scale and it needs to be stopped before its too late.
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Americans hit with record high everything due to capitalism and fascism.
Got that $300bn Iran bill to pay...
But Trump promised my electricity bill would be cut in half!!!
Yes, but each half regrows as a full bill.
Hydra-electric power
Always the opposite of what he says. Always.
His fans will say "They will go down any day now. I blame Obama."
Hopefully the summers will be cooler in the future 🤞 🤞 🤞
Bro thats dangerous we actually need to make the earth hotter so it doesnt totally freeze up bro
No fucking shit. It's not even mid summer yet, and we keep our ac set as high as health conditions allow. Damn thing runs almost non stop with this old, busted ass house
Might cost you less to seal some windows or something than the cost of running the AC 24/7
You forget that American houses, especially lower class ones, are made out of practically cardboard or literally foam. While sealing can help a decent amount most older homes are lucky to have R10 insulation total from drywall to whatever external sheeting exists. Even now most new construction only has to be R15.
That means at best you'd be running the AC 24/7 during the summer months if you live in the 80% of the US that gets above 32c for days at a time.
To be fair, OP said their house is "old and busted". I live in a century old farm house so I know old and busted.
We run our furnace fan sometimes when it gets hot out as our dug basement stays cool so it'll blow that cold air through our house. But we have made sure to seal windows better, use black out curtains on the south side of our house (Where the sun tends to be most of the summer) and do what we can without needing to use our Heat Pump or AC units.
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Wonder how those cheap construction Texas McMansions with the huge foyer and high ceilings will fare. Some of the largest power bills I ever had were from when I lived in Texas, and that was in a pretty small place.
use (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920's.
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Ai, yai, yai…
I wanted to install solar when I bought my home.
The home I ended up getting had a beautiful oak tree probably several hundred years old. Which is directly blocking most of my roof on a small lot.
Not much sun to be had.
"I did this!"
- trump
AI too. The power to build out all those datacenters isn't coming from new generation unless it's methane belching shit like X's colossus and that's just offsetting the shitty garbage into the atmosphere instead of your power bill. And Trump is very much neck deep in AI, crypto and all the attendant bubble garbage.
They are saying our utilities are projected to go up 40% in the next five years. My electric bill is already getting close to $400. I am wondering how I am going to pay when it is close to $600 as money is already tight.
400??? Holy fuck. Are you running the AC with the windows open? Or is your house 5000 sq ft? You need an energy consultant more than anything. How much insulation do you have? And no, a paper towel stapled into a wall doesn't count. I'm also taking a wild guess that your windows are single pane from the 60's and don't close all the way?
Lol I don't even use it for heat or cooling. 10 people live here and it is a big house with 5 bdrm and 3 bath. We live on an island and have to pay diesel surcharge to maintain a diesel power station in case the hydro power fails. We also have a water pump which probably adds to it.
My heating fuel has been as high as $700 in one month in winter. A friend pays over a thousand because their house is not insulated properly.
That is why it is scary when they talk about rates going up. I am already making hard decisions about what to eat. There isn't wiggle room for continuous rate increases. We will obviously find a way, but it sucks for sure.
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Not me, I put in solar panels 5 years ago.
Our solar panels are probably the best investment we ever made. Year to year our electric bill averages out to zero, even with charging our EV. Over the summer our batteries participate in our electric utilities virtual power plant program, which pays us around $2000 each year for the excess electricity we provide. And our state has a renewable energy program that pays us for every megawatt our panels generate, no matter what it’s used for.
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I put up panels last year, made the cut off for the federal rebate. I filed my taxes the first week of February and I'm still waiting for my return. They asked for a few documents back in may that they already had, no one will give me an answer. Theyre holding my money hostage.
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