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AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Spiking demand is sending energy bills skyrocketing, while the governor threatens to pull the state from the grid.

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[–] JBar2@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I haven't looked into this, but why aren't states creating a very expensive tier for energy consumption?

And if the problem is that it would impact other businesses, why not narrowly tailor such a tier that AI companies would be the ones impacted?

If it's going to take infrastructure to support AI, then the AI companies should fund it via taxes.

Oh, right, that's socialism according to the GOP

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Regulating demand like this is supposed to be like the one thing a free market is good at, isn't it? Supply can't go up, so prices go up until demand evens out. Am I supposed to believe that all the free market stuff I hear about isn't working?!

[–] Tollana1234567 4 points 1 week ago

most of them are based in red states for a reason, little to no regulation, and the voters arnt likely to push back against these companies.

[–] LodeMike 3 points 1 week ago

Actually this is due to laws passed by bypartisan congresses. Look up how fucked up the U.S. electricity regulations are.