This is off topic, but toms hardware is one of a growing list of pages using “ad recovery” services that intentionally break their own page and then blame DNS-level filters for the problem. It’s disingenuous at best and I really don’t think a site willing to employ a such deceptive tactic should be allowed to get page views.
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Why are residential and critical infrastructure electric rates uncapped? Prices should not be allowed to be hiked. The material ability to produce the electricity is there no matter what and demand is functionally inelastic--this price hiking doesn't cover any increase in cost of production, it just goes directly to utility company profit lines. We need to stop fucking negotiating with power companies.
I wouldn't point to power companies as the sole culprits here. These data centers shouldn't be getting approval in the first place based on their power and water demand, but they promise more money and jobs coming to the area and these dipshits keep believing them.
So long as fuel prices fluctuate, power prices will fluctuate. Some price variation is more for curbing costs than for padding profits. I'm not the guy running those numbers at my power plant, but I see power rates swing with demand and prices/MW. The past few days in VA were pretty demanding on us.
I think there's plenty blame to be laid at the feet of data center owners and local permitting morons, for sure. That said, at the end of the day, National Grid NA has posted year on year record profits and continues to argue that price hikes are necessary due to short term fuel cost spikes. Meanwhile, regulators and legislators insist that we need to "negotiate" pricing when most of the infrastructure and labor for generation and transmission is subsidized by the state, is a critical infrastructure, and the operators are still fully capable of netting immense profit despite everything. It just doesn't make sense. They are not going to go away because their profits are fewer billions this year than last year's billions, and if they did, it would be more than fine for the state to step in and take over in providing critical infrastructure for the operation of society, even if it is a cost center, because it's one of the key fucking reasons humans collect into cooperative society in the first place.
100% reasonable and fair take. No notes lol.
If Virginians aren't surrounding the county government building, 24/7, with firearms...
Your fucking state motto is Sic Semper Tyranis.
Live up to it, or never be taken seriously, about anything, ever again.
You know what happened in Iceland in the 07/08 financial crisis?
Something like 1/3 to 2/3 of the entire population of the island surrounded parliament, literally with pitchforks, untill they actually prosecuted the criminal financiers for their actual financial crimes.
Iceland is basicslly the only Western country that didn't bail out their bankster fraud artists, snd send them to fucking prison, instead.
Ya'll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
I've seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.
If you actually read the article, nobody is asking individuals to reduce usage, the local government is trying to save on its own bill by... Turning off unused lights and computer monitors at work.
The real crime is variable rate power plans and price hikes. Shouldn't exist. It's a utility, why does it need a market price? Should be provided by government, not private companies...
That they are in the position where they even need to ask is an admission that they are sell out traitors to the inherent responsibilities and duties vested in them by the voting public.
They are frauds and failures, the only correct thing they could all do is rescind all permits for any data center contracts, and then resign immediately.
Anything less than that?
Run them out of town, outta the entire fucking state.
The state of Virginia cries about the battle flag the 1rst Minnesota took during the Battle of Gettysburg from the 28th Virginia on the July 3 day of the battle to this day.
They have asked for the flag back 4 times. Each time we say No!. The 1rst Minnesota took that flag in open battle and the 70% casualties was the blood paid for it. The blood of 4 men directly paid for its capture.
Their state motto hasn't meant much since that battle.
Hah!
Well shit, I was not aware of that.
... that's uh, funny, I guess, in a more modern context, with more temporal distance.
But, Minnesotans are bleeding again lately, due to armed tyrants, so I guess in that sense, its less funny.
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It's becoming painfully obvious that there is no way to ethically use frontier models powered by these monstrosities. It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County... and they're asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
This is insanity.
It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
In other words, this shit is killing people? I don't think many houses in the US are made so that you can survive 38°C outside without A/C ?
This administration has killed a lot of folks.
They are being paid. Why else would they doom their own people? You won’t stop it if you don’t stop them.
Tuckahoe
The only reasonable response to these requests is fuck you figure out your data center power issues yourself.
Power is for the people.
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If I lived in Virginia County, I'd do my part and use as much electricity as I could. Bring the grid down, piss everyone off, and call out the fucktards who are blaming "the people", rather than the data centers.
That sucks. I remember everyone pointing and laughing at California because the state was being defrauded by Enron, which caused regular brownouts.
I ain't do that. If you are in Virginia (or anywhere else, but since this post is about Virginia) and need help cooling off, pour water on your forearm. I learned it as left forearm because it's barely closer to your heart, but I haven't noticed a difference. You're getting better air cooling because of the water, and it's on your forearm which gets a lot of bloodflow. Also you aren't getting your clothes wet. Old farmer's trick.
Mentioning Enron never ceases to make my blood boil. People died for market manipulation. Arguably the best public utility in the US was cannibalized for corporate profits.
The reason Texas didn't bother connecting to the grid was because it had a higher uptime than the rest of the nation. It was literally, the energy capital of the world.
They privatized the public utility and within a year Texas went from the cheapest electric in the nation to the most expensive.
Worst of all, no one at Enron got the chair for their murders. In fact, because it was based in Texas when things went to shit and the execs took their golden parachutes. A judge ruled that no return of the stolen assets was required because one of the executives died. Imagine robbing a bank, giving the money to your wife, and then dying and your wife gets to keep the money.
Fuck those stupid fucking conservatives and the republicans representing them. Ultimately, the tolerance of their corruption and greed has brought the USA to its knees.
one of the worst parts was all the accounting students thinking "wow! i can do that someday too!"
I lived through those brownouts but I was a teen and didn’t understand what was going on, just that it was annoying. We had just moved into a house in a very hot part of town where the wind goes to die and it suuuuucked.
Why couldn't they ask data centers to conserve power?
But how would I ask Claude the best way to cook beans at 2000ft above sea level?
At 2000 ft? Just cook them. I don't think you really need to make adjustments until you're about 3x higher in elevation than that...
Thanks, beans on the menu tonight now
No reliable national grid and no coordinated expansion of power plant capacity and an economy built on IT services. That's a bold strategy.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but NEVER fly a drone near a transformer
Fuck that. Now I am going to shower even harder.
Oh, so Virginia is going to be the sacrificial state, good for them.
They voted for all this shit.
I believe VA has more data centers than any other state.
sure would be a shame if someone hooked up the 4X4 to the power line and knocked it down. or got a back hoe and dug it up.. just saying thats a great way to conseve power. i hope to hear about the AI outage black outs all next week...
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