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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months ago

Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

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Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

www.tomshardware.com

VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months ago
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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.
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  • sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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    I’m confused why this isn’t being done everywhere.

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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      Bribes.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      most of the states, govorners have been bribed, whitmer, mills,etc. the gop are all on board.

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    This is the way.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    But what if they pass on the expense to their users?

    Then it’d be an even bigger win.

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      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.

  • EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
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    Proud of my state, mostly.

    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
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      Same, we drop the ball at times but overall I like where we’re headed.

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    Good shit

  • sagoglex@piefed.social
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    I mean theres only so much money can do. You cant have infinite growth on a finite planet. Water doesnt grow on money.

  • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My people 🥰

    • Atropos@lemmy.world
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      We’re not perfect here, but we do make some good choices!

      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Hey. Speak for yourself. 🤪

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    Seems fair

  • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    What had Steyer said his ideas for California were? He kept saying he was going to take on the power companies but can’t recall policy papers.

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    This has nothing to do with “fair share” you people are deranged. This is simple cost and profit calculation

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    Lol, 1.3% is meaningless

    So what did they do with the rest of the money?

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      There are only so many data centers, so by hiking their rates 30% then they were able to reduce the already paid rate of probably 1.5M households by 1.3%. They didnt increase everyones rates 30% and then reduce it to 28.7% for the residential customer.

      1.3% is pretty significant when youre talking about over a million accounts. Data centers use a ton of energy but thats a handful of accounts by comparison (or literally)

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        But nothing is good and everything sucks so this is invalid

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      Have you seen other power companies lowering prices instead of increasing them?

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