@TackleGZ@pitdesi I’ve not said anything about being against them, I am pointing out what a majority of the 60,000 people in my rural county think. The grid is bad, local county taxes don’t build grid here.
@jlgolson@pitdesi I live 10 minutes away from a town with a population of 1400 people and the power is more reliable there but 10min away we may as well be on Mars.
I don’t really want to see that, I’d prefer that they are responsible for infrastructure upgrades and that the bill is not spread around to all customers. Vandalizing them will lead to some crazy terrorist charges due to the “national security implications” I don’t want that for people. Terminator hopefully is not prophecy. 😂
There is a decent organized group that ran off a hyperscaler 2 years ago that wanted to setup a 2000 acre mega complex in the middle of a rural neighborhood. They ended up dropping the rezoning effort after much pushback from the citizens. The new one is much better located, inside an industrial area, and hasn’t gotten much pushback. My concerns are with the grid and my power supplier more than with the hyperscaler. I don’t believe they will ever complete their planned $100 billion investment.
@moistenedrod@pitdesi The government also added 30% to the M2 money supply during early COVID which fucked the whole economy. So who knows really if power went up or buying power went down due to inflation.
@moistenedrod@pitdesi Tell that to my neighbors in Northern Virginia. Their power has increased by 20%-25% and they are in data center alley and have been forever. That should be how it works but in reality it doesn’t.
@moistenedrod@pitdesi Residential electricity rates in Loudoun County—served primarily by Dominion Energy and NOVEC—have increased by roughly 25% to 30% since 2021, with a sharp jump of about 14.5% since 2022 alone.
@SleepRebellion@pitdesi I live in Virginia, the world’s largest concentration of data centers is 3 hours north of me and the residents have seen a 20%-25% increase over the last few years. What you say sounds good but in reality people are greedy.