AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

[1srelluc]

https://archive.ph/6Aypw#selection-1249.0-1249.47

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills.
The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data Center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a 57-year-old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about 80% higher than they were about three years ago. “They’re going up and up,” he said. “You wonder, ‘What is your breaking point?’”

It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers send power costs to records in much of the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy.

The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving up electricity bills — piling onto the rising prices for food, housing and other essentials already straining consumers. That’s starting to have economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs. Yet those same facilities are a linchpin of US leadership in the global AI race.

LOL.....You home is now a waste of AI site resources.

AI message to homeowner:

Sorry Dave, I know it's 100 degrees out but I need to turn-off your AC.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

https://archive.ph/6Aypw#selection-1249.0-1249.47

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills.
The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data Center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a 57-year-old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about 80% higher than they were about three years ago. “They’re going up and up,” he said. “You wonder, ‘What is your breaking point?’”

It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers send power costs to records in much of the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy.

The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving up electricity bills — piling onto the rising prices for food, housing and other essentials already straining consumers. That’s starting to have economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs. Yet those same facilities are a linchpin of US leadership in the global AI race.

LOL.....You home is now a waste of AI site resources.

AI message to homeowner:

Sorry Dave, I know it's 100 degrees out but I need to turn-off your AC.

Why are individuals subsidizing AI centers?

 

[MarathonMike]

AI is a scourge on humanity. It's like the plant in Little Shop Of Horrors.
" FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!!"

 

[Concerned American]

https://archive.ph/6Aypw#selection-1249.0-1249.47

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills.
The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data Center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a 57-year-old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about 80% higher than they were about three years ago. “They’re going up and up,” he said. “You wonder, ‘What is your breaking point?’”

It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers send power costs to records in much of the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy.

The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving up electricity bills — piling onto the rising prices for food, housing and other essentials already straining consumers. That’s starting to have economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs. Yet those same facilities are a linchpin of US leadership in the global AI race.

LOL.....You home is now a waste of AI site resources.

AI message to homeowner:

Sorry Dave, I know it's 100 degrees out but I need to turn-off your AC.

Crypto mining operations are as well. We have one in the adjoining depressed, low income county that took over a newsprint plant. I watched this outfit install transformers nearly the size of a big rig trailer---maybe fifty of them. Hmmm, I wonder why our rural area is seeing increases electrical rates.

 

[my2¢]

The amount of water they use for cooling (4 million gallons a day) is also a concern here in the desert.

 

[Bleipriester]

That nonsense needs to stop.

 

[Votto]

Why are individuals subsidizing AI centers?

Because you are their slave.

Duh!!

And watch those water prices skyrocket as well since AI needs that as well

And yes, the government cares more about AI than you,

Thanks for asking

 

[Votto]

That nonsense needs to stop.

Tyranny needs to stop?

Look around the world

No, no it never stops.

 

[1srelluc]

Here's another kick in the balls.

The data centers sign long term contracts at lower rates than what the average consumer pays. When wholesale rates go up, your rate also goes up and theirs stays the same.

 

[Bleipriester]

Tyranny needs to stop?

Look around the world

No, no it never stops.

I mean on topic. It is not worth it. They all build that AI factories but there will be much more efficient processors that will be able to to carry the burden. Each AI request requires the whole human kind´s knowledge, skill, history, ect to be consulted. The software is effective and so the hardware will be.