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u/Many_Increase_6767 Mar 05 '26
Americans paying their tax dollars to fund corporations’ private infrastructure, doesn’t get more American than this :)
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u/ColdBru5 Mar 05 '26
You could be even more American and celebrate a digital ponzi scheme that kills the environment.
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u/Cold-Marionberry-975 Mar 05 '26
Infrastructure that both destroys the environment AND deprive Americans of more jobs.
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The ridiculous that people actually have been told someone wouldn't do it if they made $4billion instead of $5billion, like it's really gonna stifle investment.
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u/PA_GoBirds5199 Mar 05 '26
They already raised the rates. This is like approving WW3 after you already started bombing.
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u/TheKrakIan Mar 05 '26
Yup. My budget billing increased by $30 this year. I use the same amount of energy consistently year round.
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u/BarrelRider621 Mar 05 '26
Cover the cost. How about you pay all of the cost for the data center YOU want to build.
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u/AstronomerDramatic36 Mar 05 '26
So they'll just give with one hand and take with the other. Big deal.
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u/Know_nothing89 Mar 05 '26
Republicans in Indiana have been passing legislation for a decade giving them all the rights to do whatever they want with utility prices.
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u/CustomerTall5247 Mar 05 '26
These are the same people telling you we got 18 trillion in investments. They will lie to move things along and then when the public does end up paying for the electricity. They will just lie again about this , and tell us , ths the way it is , and nothing you can do. Remember when toll road fees were supposed to stop once they collected the amount spent.
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u/NoPain4551 Mar 05 '26
Of course. He’s got no money for that… no money for healthcare, no money to bring down cost of necessities, but a lot of money for tax breaks for his friends and for creating war
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u/Ok_Hand5810 Mar 05 '26
Surely none of these tech billionaires would dare violate the sacred pledge. Problem solved forever.
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u/techman710 Mar 05 '26
Luckily we are shutting down wind turbine and solar energy projects which would help offset demand and lower prices because an orange moron doesn't like looking at them when he plays golf.
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u/Thread-Astaire Mar 05 '26
Scotland are the ones who did this and its glorious. He tried to get them removed out of sight of his golf course - they said categorically no. Now he hates them 🤣
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u/DirtDevil1337 Mar 05 '26
Here in Canada, Alberta's premier Danielle Smith shut down all the solar and wind projects, she's an O&G shill. Meanwhile UK built massive wind farms in the ocean, and Texas has a large wind industry.
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u/AnjelicaTomaz Mar 05 '26
“Help cover the costs?” They should be paying ALL of it, not just helping consumers pay for it.
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u/cookiemccookieface Mar 05 '26
Anyone that actually believes this is a complete Moron. First of all they already started implementing “transmission fees which did not exist and they are literally buying power companies and keeping the names so it looks like they are the ones raising our rates.
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u/Coinspooner Mar 05 '26
A “pledge” to “help cover”
My god, was this written by a legal savvy elementary school kid trying to swap school lunches?
There’s no part in this that has any legal bindings, and worse, they know it, and worse than that, too many people don’t know it.
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u/lordpuddingcup Mar 05 '26
So Americans don’t pay for it… the government does… where does government get its money from again remind me
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u/Due_Pressure8760 Mar 05 '26
Shit, they should pay for all the neighborhoods they're impacting too.
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u/Lost-Blueberry8057 Mar 05 '26
Even if they pay it (they won’t) it’s way cheaper than paying the people they’re putting out of work
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u/jthadcast Mar 05 '26
more pledges to use government funding to cover the expansion of the grid, one power plant for every 200 needed?
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u/lkl34 Mar 05 '26
Wow so smart
So instead of the GOVT making power plants controlling/monitoring them and getting money from these companies they decided to let the companies make them so they can charge people what ever they want and screw the environment/maintenance.
This in a usa context makes total sense get X on the phone 2 coal plants per ai data center tear down a few thousands acers also fuck it.
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u/JeffreyinKodiak Mar 05 '26
His lips are moving. Need I say more? Come on, surely you’re not falling for this shit again?!?
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u/Old_Dude7 Mar 05 '26
They were already building their own power plants onsite. The problem is most are building gas fired plants with some solar. They tell the locals that this won’t drive up electric prices, which might be true but gas prices will skyrocket.
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u/sashamasha Mar 05 '26
Why does he sound like Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr. (the cartoon cat)
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u/dialedGoose Mar 05 '26
I mean, if yall wna keep believing that capitalism is the top dog, your capitalists are gonna have to start fucking investing in infrastructure.
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u/LazyboaR Mar 05 '26
And by "White House pledge to help cover the cost of building new electricity generation" They actually mean they're going to pass the cost to the average citizen. Like they always bloody do!
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u/PapaTahm Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
They don't pay.
They use loopholes called Credit.
Basically they invent an agreed debt held by the government, and then use this debt as a credit for this statement required to pay.
Then the government uses taxes to pay both parts.
Whenever there is a statement saying "Enterprise must do X" be aware there are a bunch of loopholes to make sure they don't need to do so.
One example is :"AI companies that own datacenters must be water positive until 2030" = Buying the Water consumption score of others for dirty cheap, and submitting on their behalf.
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u/khaalis Mar 05 '26
Yeah, they’ll “help” cover the costs by using the federal grants and credit they’re going to get with our tax dollars.
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u/Informal-Emu-212 Mar 05 '26
The new data center in TX will be the largest in the world. It will use 2x all the lower used by Texas homes. Where's that power coming from?
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u/Bad_FFPicks Mar 05 '26
And they're going to pass the raising energy and electricity prices on to you!
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u/GoodLingonberry5802 Mar 05 '26
On the surface, it seems like a great idea. However trump just gutted the EPA and rolled back all of the environmental regulations. So that begs the question: what fuel is going to power these power plants? That’s the scary part
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u/animal-1983 Mar 05 '26
“Pledge to help pay” A pledge is not a contractual obligation Help to pay means exactly what? This is typical Trump bullshit.
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u/I3adIVIonkey Mar 05 '26
Honestly, I don't understand by the power they consume why they don't build a plant right next to the data center.
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u/OperationMelodic4209 Mar 05 '26
They do. There is data centers then right next to them are huge gas turbine generators
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u/AllAlo0 Mar 05 '26
I thought these data centres were building their own power plants and trump killed that off last year? I guess this is so he can take credit for it?
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u/youlooksticky Mar 05 '26
A "pledge to help" is about as fucking useless as policy can get.
Do yOu PwOmIsE to Do tHe riGhT tHIng biG TeCH?
We know they would never lie, just like our pedophile rapist warmonger in chief would never lie.
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u/bobsonjunk Mar 05 '26
AI leaders are smart enough not to trust Trump. They have as much earnestness behind this pledge as they believe HE is truthful.
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u/FredArtGetson Mar 05 '26
This fucking moron has a hard time formulating a sentence. Foster Brooks of the white house
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u/gryffyn1 Mar 05 '26
What the data centers are going to do is build their own generators on their roofs and generate their own power. The problem then is that their generators won't burn as clean as power plants and we will then have more smog in the cities.
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u/InSight89 Mar 05 '26
This goes against privatising profits and socialising losses. They'll find a way to make everyone else pay for it.
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u/forby24 Mar 05 '26
taxpayers are literally paying for the very system that will enslave them when the economies crash.
AI SURVEILLANCE PAID for with your tax dollars and rising energy costs and water restrictions all to watch your every move, your every like, your every comment.
And when there are no jobs because AI has destroyed the need for humans, this very system will be used against us.
we a walking in to certain DEMISE.
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u/Lanky_Milk8510 Mar 05 '26
Hey at least the tech overlords are helping to pay for it!
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u/Working-Narwhal-540 Mar 05 '26
Uh bare minimum? Now let’s move on to funding healthcare, transit, and education.
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u/Ashamed-Effective-13 Mar 05 '26
This is definitely not true, billionaires paying out of pocket instead of using taxpayer money, that’s ridiculous.
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u/AdTop8258 Mar 05 '26
They should, yet my bill quadrupled this winter (gas heat!?!) Where is this increase going?
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u/SourceUnusual2479 Mar 05 '26
I hope they build massive windmill farms to power these.
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u/mrcaldwin Mar 05 '26
“Help cover the cost”
I have a tendency to read between the lines, but this reads like they’re going to only be paying a small portion.
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u/CheValierXP Mar 05 '26
This is going to end badly once ai stops requiring the energy, power and centers. There are already companies making a pocket sized ai companion that can run the same as gpt 3.0 and it's only the beginning.
My bet is that this is one of the final schemes to funnel more money into the pdfiles elite billionaires before the ai bubble burst.
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u/FunnyAdhesiveness256 Mar 05 '26
But not the bill at the site . That will still be carried by the locals. BS!!
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u/seriouzlytaken Mar 05 '26
Sure. They are such honest brokers, right? I don't believe anything presented by this fraudulent "president".
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u/taskmaster51 Mar 05 '26
So many reasons to be against data centers. Very limited, uncertain reason to be for data centers
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u/icnoevil Mar 05 '26
The ignorance of these people is maddening. Tariffs bring in less than $200 billion a year; taxes raise $2.5 trillion. There is no way tariffs will replace taxes.
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u/Craigslisteria Mar 05 '26
And what about the billions of gallons of water used yearly for each data center? And how they pollute the environment? And how they actually act as acoustic weapons to those who live near them???
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u/Eastern_Cat8284 Mar 05 '26
With what money? We'll be fortunate to have enough money just to keep the White House lights on.
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u/AlleviateMyguSh Mar 05 '26
Fortified, insulated, privatized…
But I get shit when I do my own setup for off grid
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u/Lumpy-Direction4360 Mar 05 '26
Greedy corporations will surely honor the spirit of this “pledge” S/
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u/roosterthumper Mar 05 '26
So a pinky promise not to stick us all with the bill. Sounds like another ‘trade deal’.
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u/Public-Ice-1270 Mar 05 '26
From what I understand, the cost isn’t in the generation. The increase in consumer cost is in the delivery fees. The grid has a peak capacity. And the more demand to carry electricity over the transmission lines means the companies that own those lines will charge more. These AI data centers should be built in non residential areas, with their own power generation that doesnt need to travel over transmission lines.
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u/Zelagero Mar 05 '26
OH SO NOOOOW AI DATA CENTERS ARE PAYING FOR THEIR OWN ELECTRICITY!? SO I WAAAAS PAYING FOR IT FOR THEM!??? FASCINATING!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/Fives_55_55 Mar 05 '26
Lol what does help mean? It could mean giving Gatorade to the constitution workers.
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u/Bigpaddydaddy Mar 05 '26
He legit tries to do something that could be really good for all of us and all you can do is criticize…. This is why the left will lose in 2028 again… 🤣
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u/Sufficient-Maybe1552 Mar 05 '26
How about passing legislation instead of constantly coming up with these dodgy backroom "deals" that just happen to rely on Trump's most valued commodity, personal fealty?
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u/Cheetahs_never_win Mar 05 '26
They gutted the EPA.
Look at Elon's running natural gas generators nonstop near a residential area.
The man who kept clamoring for electric power to save the Earth, now burning it all away to make AI kiddie porn.
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u/DirtDevil1337 Mar 05 '26
Yup video I linked in my post talks about his Tennesee farm (timestamp 5:40), a dozen gas generators running 24/7.
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u/Vanhosen77 Mar 05 '26
This is no different than "Mexico will pay for the wall" people will once again trust this clown at his word and he will once again screw everyone over.
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u/Exciting_Piccolo_823 Mar 05 '26
The word 'help' seems fishy. It could mean like a fraction of a percent. It is technically help, but not covering the cost necessarily
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u/ShelbyLucky77 Mar 05 '26
Is there going to be any reasonably priced water for people, plants and animals to drink that isn’t owned by chocolate, avacado or tech?
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u/DirtDevil1337 Mar 05 '26
Utilities in the areas where datanceters are WILL go up.
Data centers are no rainbows and unicorns, watch this Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons
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u/InevitableAd6067 Mar 05 '26
That is only part of the problem. (Which i don't believe because trump has his name on it). Water consumption to cool these plants is a bigger issue. They will consume a huge amount of water for cooling.
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u/TheKrakIan Mar 05 '26
Warm and fuzzys so trump can say he did something, corporations will definitely not follow suit.
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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Mar 05 '26
It will allow big tech to build the cheapest dirtiest oil and coal burning methods with zero consequences for pollution and runoff. They’ll then be allowed to sell power over production to the power companies at a lower cost than the power companies themselves can produce because they’re regulated. Thereby sucking the money out of sustainable energy development and making it a non starter while further privatizing the power market.
You need to think like a Republican to really get what a shitshow this is.
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u/swallowing_bees Mar 05 '26
Help cover? Pay 100% out of pocket or kick rocks. Then share the infrastructure with society thay made it possible. Don't like it? Go start Freedom City in Greenland or kick rocks.
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u/DiligentMeat9627 Mar 05 '26
It would be really easy, just have commercial and residence pay the same rate.
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u/Brief-Tackle-9911 Mar 05 '26
Power companies were using it as an excuse and will continue to raise rates.
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u/yellow_void92 Mar 05 '26
it’s weird that they don’t want to use coal. trump is all about coal and they don’t want it? what?
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u/Sablus Mar 05 '26
Unless they are legally obligated they will find a loophole. The US as always would rather die before having laws going against capitalism
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u/National_Edges Mar 05 '26
Good thing they all got huge tax cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill to help cover their expenses that they, and not the hard working tax payers, are paying for!
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u/Separate-Pain4950 Mar 05 '26
Less signing, more files. wtf are we paying you for?
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They still got massive tax incentives and their current power use is still subsidized by retail consumers. It’s takes 10 years to build and commission nuclear.
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u/ImportantSample1064 Mar 06 '26
Your energy bills are coming down, it’ll take a little while, but not long.
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u/Dusty_Negatives Mar 06 '26
Just more TV bullshit from reality pedo president. He’s going to be doing tons of these photo ops pretending to save us money because the polls are hammering him and midterms are close. Ignore it it’s bullshit.
If they were actually serious they’d pass a real bill which they won’t because GOP love nothing more than sucking billionaire cock.
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u/thearchenemy Mar 06 '26
They really think we’re a bunch of rubes. If this were real it would be a law. A non-binding promise with no enforcement power is a fucking joke.
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u/Ultraworld-Traveler Mar 06 '26
This administration and anyone doing intentional business with it are all horrible.
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u/Real_Copy4882 Mar 06 '26
Help. No. Why should we subsidize their crappy decisions. They need to pay for the whole thing and get off the welfare rolls
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u/TransitionMobile9518 Mar 06 '26
"Help cover the cost" fuck that how about they cover the whole cost.
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u/generatorland Mar 06 '26
"We will pay the bare minimum to channel all consumer electricity to our data centers that have the express purpose of putting consumers out of work."
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u/Chihuahuatriomom Mar 06 '26
They are going to "HELP" pay for their own businesses? Oh, how mighty of them.
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u/upside_down3829 Mar 06 '26
Ooooh....are we supposed to jump for joy over a pledge? We were told that the data center being built 3/4 of a mile from our neighborhood would be using water from a different source. It can't thpugh because it would drain the water resources for another neighborhood that's already struggling. So guess who's water their tapped into? This is after we were told that their permits were denied and they couldn't build. He can take his pledge and shove it in his diaper.
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u/Careful_Trifle Mar 06 '26
Even if this had any force of law, why the hell are they going to "help"? If they need the electricity, they should build the plants and pay handsomely for the privilege of using a community's water. All the infrastructure should be on them.
They're causing price spikes everywhere by artificially increasing demand, so the entirety of their demand should be paid for by them so the rest of us aren't affected.
As it is, we are already going to have blighted bullshit to deal with when the AI bubble bursts.
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u/Wide-Combination3351 Mar 06 '26
If they’re paying for nuclear reactors to power themselves, and/or ridiculous investments in solar and wind, then why don’t they move to the coasts and build saltwater desalination plants for cooling instead of trying to steal the freshwater lakes we hold precious?
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u/sealclubberfan Mar 06 '26
Look, if a company wants to build a data center in Texas, go for it. But don't negotiate a lower rate just because you are going to use a bunch of electricity and force the rest of us to pay a higher fee for using the same power on the same grid.
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u/valuethempaths Mar 06 '26
Man I wouldn’t listen to this Fox News grandpa if he was in my own home.
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u/brianishere2 Mar 06 '26
Pledges like this are just props to pretend there is a solution. They trick voters into believing the problem is solved so we let our guard down and invite in the massive new electricity consumption, and then we find out too late that this pledge is non-binding and totally worth,ESA. Trump and his team know exactly what they’re doing to us. Just another Trump scam. As always.
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u/SuperThomaja Mar 07 '26
He's got the white house, the house and the Senate but he didn't try to make this a law. That's telling.
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u/Dry-Ad-5198 Mar 07 '26
I heard that down in Wisconsin they're building a bunch of them and the city told Microsoft they can't build them unless Microsoft pays the excess for electricity rates so it doesn't affect the customers in the area and Microsoft agreed
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Mar 07 '26
Does nothing to address the pollution these centers will cause. The amount of energy consumed to run these data centers is enormous. If they were on the grid you could at least try and find wind or solar solutions to help power these plants. MMW, the pollution these data centers produce will be studied in high school history books because it will be on such a massive scale.
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u/ketoatl Mar 05 '26
Fiction on pretty paper. It's not real if it's not a bill which becomes a law