Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year’s midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who’s footing the bill to power Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
Electricity costs were a key issue in this week’s elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state’s utility regulatory commission.
Is there a reason why data centres can’t be fully or partially renewable? Like constructing a solar and wind farm on site?
You know when companies apply for planning and usually the councils negotiate x and y with them like if you’re gonna slap this there then you must do something for us like upgrade the surround roads or infrastructure etc. If I was approving a data centre I’d like to think it would be on the same lines, build out some new power generation 50/50 with us or something like that.
Ah shit I forgot about corruption. Just pay off the approvers.
They can be renewable. But there’s an entire right wing devoted to anti-renewables, and a lot of people who NIMBY solar and wind farms anywhere near them in line of sight
they need water to cool off to, so theres that issue, and they also dump pollution.
It’s not required. It’s just cheaper.
So build a water store too.
They’re just cheap bastards