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Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis
www.actionnews5.com/2026/09/02/docs-reveal-plans-6-utility-rate-hike-help-fund-googles-data-center-project-west-memphis/posted in Technology
Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis
www.actionnews5.com/2026/09/02/docs-reveal-plans-6-utility-rate-hike-help-fund-googles-data-center-project-west-memphis/Replying to @Fuswoo@lemmy.world
Surely the data centres should pay for their utilities including electricity!
Replying to @Greyghoster@aussie.zone
Not when you have a Free Market™ sprinkled with lots of Freedom™. And don’t call me Shirley.
Replying to @VonReposti@feddit.dk
I had the fish
Replying to @Greyghoster@aussie.zone
That’s the neat part, they generally do pay for “their” electricity, but there isn’t enough electricity for them to do that so power plants and infrastructure expansion must happen and they pretend that’s for everyone, not just them, so they shouldn’t pay for the capacity since technically they can’t tell whose electricity is really whose.
It’s a pretty broken model in this scenario.