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> more power to them that seems to be the idea!

• rockemsockem 5mo ago
  Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.
  • dymk 5mo ago
    Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right?
    • rockemsockem 5mo ago
      Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
      • dymk 5mo ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
        • rockemsockem 5mo ago
          Cool, one blip. https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_timelines/trends_in_dram_price_per_gigabyte https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_time...
  • nemomarx 5mo ago
    https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/ https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers... It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region?
    • rockemsockem 5mo ago
      Sounds like a great idea