Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises

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wickedrando@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 109d (2 replies)

someone will make a bunch of money on this, then the datacenters will be cancelled anyway :)

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 109d (1 reply)

the bubble will pop eventually

Maeve@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 109d

Tonight would be great! 😃

RedWeasel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 109d

if you are in the market to build a datacenter, you should probably build out as near to a reliable power source to begin with. While I see some promise in smaller local models for various purposes, I do not see any benefit of anything that would require one new data center, let alone what ever they have "planned".

Also a promise involving Trump is worth about as much as a backed up sewer.