My electric rate got hiked again.
I’m already planning a ~7 KW solar setup in the spring but I may see if I can go bigger and sooner.
Just got the news today that my electric rates are going up 12%. This follows multiple above inflation rate hikes in recent years. We used to have cheap electricity. I’m sure that wider adoption of EVs and the push to switch from natural gas in the home to electric everything is a big contributing factor. I’m also sure data centers are a big contributing factor.
Or because people from California will not stop moving here.
It will, and you can’t stop it. Zucc needs his volts for his AI, just like Altman and that google prick.
oh man, it would be amazing to be completely off grid in the middle of a city. lol
AI data centers aren’t going up in the middle of cities…
They actually are. Musk is currently poisoning black kids in Memphis with a combo of data centers and hydrocarbon burning power sources (of questionable legality).
They aren’t going into affluent areas of big cities.
idgaf about datacenters. I just think it would be amazing to disconnect from the electrical grid and give them the finger in the middle of a city
Am offgrid, not in a city but not entirely fucking nowhere either. In the middle ground. Can confirm it feels good. Especially during storms when i can tell others power went out
i’m semi-middle ground too. not off grid, just got a generator. gotta tell you, it’s pretty nice not losing the contents of my fridge anymore
Why would you ever disconnect from the grid though? You can sell your power back and you can buy power as a backup if you just stay connected to it.
because I can
- not care
- sell it to my neighbours
- I don’t help corporations/companies that have been actively working harder and harder to screw me over… even for a pittance of kickback. screw em
Good job not caring, proud of you.
i thought we’re talking about dale
They are in Australia. However home solar + battery adoption is also quite high and there are people who are effectively off-grid in the city as they supply a net surplus back to the grid.
“AI is asinine, I tell ya hwat.”
Dale strikes me as a very anti-AI kinda guy.
He’d be against giant corporate owned AI, while having his own locak model loaded with wild-ass conspiracy theories driving him even crazier.
This sounds about right.
The meme is on a different sheet than the character.
Your electric bill is going up because “ai” users are generating child pornography.
The models themselves don’t take that much to run. Maybe 10wh per picture generated strictly not including all the other infrastructure. Training takes a fuck long amount of Matrix stuff.
it’s not just the models, it’s the output.
What
THE CHILD PORN YOU DENSE TWAT
fuck do you need it spelled out in crayons?
We are talking about the power usage, not thr data that is coming out of it.
Yea dude we get it but the post is about the power usage and bills passed onto consumers
And fuck me, if some CP enjoyer is kept away from real children, in his basement, because he can just look at CP slop, I’m all for it. Unethical but at least they’re away from our kids… For a while at least until they stop liking the slop… Okay that may be more enabling than preventative… Idk
Probably better to invest in batteries tha make it bigger?
Hell yeah! Those other stupid poor people are the reason your electricity price went up!
By “other stupid poor people” are you referring to Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the facebook douchebag?
