"making a company PAY for something? That's commiesocialmarxism!" - a republican somewhere (and, for some reason an alarming amount of democrats)

Adam Schiff is a piece of shit and this "bring your own power" thing is bullshit. It just means that the datacenters will do what Elon Musk did in Memphis and install a bunch of unregulated turbine generators to spew poisonous nox into the air.

This bullcrap is supported by Trump's "Crypto/AI tsar" David Sachs.

Fuck it. Make them use renewables as well.

Pay!? Make them BUILD 2x the capacity they need and give the rest away to the grid. Don't let them get away with using money to escape the social consequences of their choices. The responsibility to ensure they have no impact should be forced to be theirs and theirs alone.

Write laws that make them cease to exist if they don't do this.

How is this not the default?

We are doomed, what a bunch of clowns

Why aren’t they paying for their own power?

Data Centers should be forced to pay to return the cost of power by consumers to normal. So as Datacenters buy power at the going rate, increasing price, they will also subsidize consumers to the point that power costs are the same as if there were no Datacenter.

Also, LLMs are worthless and will burn life away from this planet.

How about pay for ALL the power?

Not just pay for their own power, TAX THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.

They're in a hurry because there's a FUCKTON of cash in it, we need to TAX them like we ACTUALLY KNOW THAT.

I don't get it. Why aren't they already paying for their power? Why is this bill necessary? It sounds like common fucking sense to me, so why isn't that the default?

So who's paying for their power now?

Do water too.

I hear data centers are exceedingly vulnerable to sabotage

We can’t afford the pedophile class anymore

It amazes me that they don’t. You’d think it would be ideal in fact so they can be self sufficient.

That's shit.

We need it to be renewable power.

If I’m not sharing the dollars, I’m not paying for the volts.

Or the stuff that transmits/makes the volts.

But data center owners will sue and it’ll go to the SC and they’ll rule corporations are citizens and therefore tax payers pay.

Same should go for any utility.

I don't understand. Did we not already have that rule?

Please don't let this blasphemy go. They're using your fresh water, at your expense, for THEIR benefits. For AI clankers who cant fix an Excel sheet properly.

My company already does this.

are they making their own H2O, too?

Or in other words, as the cons would say - Schiff and other Democrats are extremists.

And water too! Especially if they waste it!

Right now a data center will come in and demand the power grid be expanded. They will bribe local officials whovwill then allow the electric company to massively increase rates to cover the new infrastructure the data center needs. Its pretty much the same as how the water service is handled.

Schiff Proposes Bill Requiring Easy Mode Copper Mines to Pay for Own Power

How is this not already a fucking requirement?

Yeah that seems reasonable, I don't think any sort of deal for power would outweigh any impact on local people for power increase.

Hell I'd say they need to pay a percentage of any power increase (like not all but something reasonable, I really have no idea like 40-60%?). I have no idea of true impacts of differences but my understanding is we have so many people living close to the line of poverty, why have a datacenter if it makes everything so much more expensive for people not using it? Especially when it's not like that center is going to do anything but suck power and provide few local jobs.