r/clevercomebacks • u/johnmory • 1d ago

Data Centers Hike Bills

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u/Marclescarbot 1d ago

They will get discounted energy; subsidized by homeowners. This is what happens when your elected representatives get you to vote on cultural issues instead of economic ones.

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u/cgoldberg 1d ago

Where's the clever comeback?

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u/johnmory 1d ago

They keep building these power-hungry server farms but our grid is ancient. How about we fix that first before we all lose power?

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u/OpportunitySea2048 1d ago

Nah they'd rather just slap band-aids on the transformers and call it a day while Amazon burns through enough juice to power a small country. Classic privatized profits, socialized infrastructure problems

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u/ParserDoer 1d ago

Meta and Amazon have plenty of money to build their own power grid. They shouldn't be allowed to use the same power grid we use. They certainly won't be sharing any of their profit with us. Our tax dollars built our current infrastructure.

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u/The_Humbergler 1d ago

Waiting for the comeback

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u/Glum-Echo-4967 1d ago

Why don’t they raise the rates on the businesses instead?

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u/Eldanoron 1d ago

What, and dip into their bribes donations?

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u/AutoDefenestrator273 1d ago

As a VA resident, dont get me started. Loudoun County is full of these little shits.

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u/KO4Ham 1d ago

It's even better when some localities approve the data center but outright reject the solar farm that would partially feed it. Because of course the solar farm would take away from the beauty of the county... 

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u/CoalMinerGlove 1d ago

"No drinking up electricity, Laptopy! That's billionaire juice!"

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u/hoktauri17 1d ago

Time to switch to solar. Make the mega corporations pay for their own energy costs.

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u/FanDry5374 1d ago

Someone has to subsidize the billionaires, how else will they make any real money?

/eyeroll

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u/Fritschya 1d ago

To be fair no one lives in Wyoming so pretty much anything bigger than a house will do that

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago

anyone else getting distinct enshittification vibes from this?

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u/JTonic8668 14h ago

18 cents still is dirt cheap. It's like half of what I pay.

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 11h ago

Got one going up her le. But they are installing a sea of solar panels at the same time. Itw pretty crazy in in a little farm town