The cost of electricity is increasing nearly everywhere in The States.
If it’s okay to call our country The States.
Anyway from what I am seeing these costs are going up disproportionately according to where you live and which power company supplies you!
From what I’ve read one reason is because huge data centers are being built to supply all of the data that we request over the internet.
Then they say that along with that AI is consuming larger shares of the data.
All of these huge computers or numbers of them have to stay cool to work properly.
So that takes a major part of the power consumption of the data centers.
It makes sense to create these data centers where the climate is naturally cooler and therefore easier and cheaper keeping the equipment cool.
An EV battery plant is starting up soon within 30 miles of where I live and I know it takes an enormous amount of electricity to make those batteries.
I guess the cost of all of this industrial consumption is being shared with residential customers in the form of higher electric bills.
So far ours has only gone up like $30 a year but I see where people in far south-west Illinois are saying that their electric bills have increased by hundreds of dollars.
I wonder what some of the people who are so concerned about global warming would think if they found out that they are contributing to the problem every time they use a cell phone or computer or IPad to play a game or stream the latest entertainment.
Would they go back to living without some of the conveniences that we are so used to now.
If it’s okay to call our country The States.
Anyway from what I am seeing these costs are going up disproportionately according to where you live and which power company supplies you!
From what I’ve read one reason is because huge data centers are being built to supply all of the data that we request over the internet.
Then they say that along with that AI is consuming larger shares of the data.
All of these huge computers or numbers of them have to stay cool to work properly.
So that takes a major part of the power consumption of the data centers.
It makes sense to create these data centers where the climate is naturally cooler and therefore easier and cheaper keeping the equipment cool.
An EV battery plant is starting up soon within 30 miles of where I live and I know it takes an enormous amount of electricity to make those batteries.
I guess the cost of all of this industrial consumption is being shared with residential customers in the form of higher electric bills.
So far ours has only gone up like $30 a year but I see where people in far south-west Illinois are saying that their electric bills have increased by hundreds of dollars.
I wonder what some of the people who are so concerned about global warming would think if they found out that they are contributing to the problem every time they use a cell phone or computer or IPad to play a game or stream the latest entertainment.
Would they go back to living without some of the conveniences that we are so used to now.
