Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share
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Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the grid to accommodate these large power users.
  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    But what if they pass on the expense to their users?

    Then it’d be an even bigger win.

    • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      I mean, they kinda of have to. I don’t know that any data centers are running at a profit yet and that’s even after they’ve switched to usage pricing; with the increased burn rate there’s no way they can’t raises price sooner rather than later.

      ETA: but make no mistake, they will do anything they can to just make multiple smaller data centers that stay under the 20MW bend point. Maybe the economics will make sense, maybe it won’t. Hopefully the 20MW and 30% figures involved some math by a bean counter to conclude the economics won’t make sense.