Thanks trump! Thanks ai bubble!
Yeah, they are paying for all the datacenters.
The datacenters that largely received State tax exemptions, and only need a skeleton crew of people to operate. So they’re not even contributing to the local economy.
Not the economy of the 99% anyway. I worry for the future of the world with these fucking things. Countries needing money are going to allow these to be built when companies throw enough money and lobby governments. The damage they will do to the environment will be tragic. So many are going up so quickly with not a thought to how they affect the area they’re built. From what I have seen they consume massive amounts of fresh water and heat the air around them venting into the atmosphere. This is surely going to have lasting affects on the earth (if enough are built). The AI bubble is just inane, its money laundering at the grandest scale and it needs to be stopped before its too late.
Not to mention their water consumption. They consume a family of 4’s year worth in water every hour. It is insain. It’s not like most of the world doesn’t have a water crises already.
Is the water recycled, fed back into the source or does it just float around the system or is evaporated into the air? I’m basically imagining a water cooled PC, but one million times the size.
A lot of them are using evaporative cooling, because it’s easier to build. So that water, which is being pulled from our already dwindling sources of fresh water, is single use and gone.
They contributed to the economy of whoever we voted for, apparently. Other than bribes I’m not sure why you’d allow this.
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Hey Chat, please summarize this article for me in which the same point has been repeated 3-4 times in order to make the main idea really sink in.
Perhaps it was written by Mojo Jojo.
But Trump promised my electricity bill would be cut in half!!!
Yes, but each half regrows as a full bill.
Hydra-electric power
Always the opposite of what he says. Always.
His fans will say “They will go down any day now. I blame Obama.”
Americans hit with record high everything due to capitalism and fascism.
Got that $300bn Iran bill to pay…
considered its been canceled since ISRAEl struck lebanon again, iran called of the deal again.
Hopefully the summers will be cooler in the future 🤞 🤞 🤞
Bro thats dangerous we actually need to make the earth hotter so it doesnt totally freeze up bro
Ai, yai, yai…
Wonder how those cheap construction Texas McMansions with the huge foyer and high ceilings will fare. Some of the largest power bills I ever had were from when I lived in Texas, and that was in a pretty small place.
use (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920’s.
Honest question: doesn’t a ceiling fan blow the hot air back down around the house?
They are reversible so you can change the direction… which I should do right now!
logical fallacy…
Yes, but more importantly they move the air around you. The air won’t be cooler, but will feel cooler.
I just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.
They are saying our utilities are projected to go up 40% in the next five years. My electric bill is already getting close to $400. I am wondering how I am going to pay when it is close to $600 as money is already tight.
400??? Holy fuck. Are you running the AC with the windows open? Or is your house 5000 sq ft? You need an energy consultant more than anything. How much insulation do you have? And no, a paper towel stapled into a wall doesn’t count. I’m also taking a wild guess that your windows are single pane from the 60’s and don’t close all the way?
Lol I don’t even use it for heat or cooling. 10 people live here and it is a big house with 5 bdrm and 3 bath. We live on an island and have to pay diesel surcharge to maintain a diesel power station in case the hydro power fails. We also have a water pump which probably adds to it.
My heating fuel has been as high as $700 in one month in winter. A friend pays over a thousand because their house is not insulated properly.
That is why it is scary when they talk about rates going up. I am already making hard decisions about what to eat. There isn’t wiggle room for continuous rate increases. We will obviously find a way, but it sucks for sure.
Not OP.
That sucks. Especially having to make poor people financial decisions, you often can’t afford to make changes that will save you money in the long run. Been there done that.
Still, there may be some things you can do to save electricity.
Cheapo line meter. I use one on my well pump. It shows usage over time. You can figure out what’s using the most juice. It does 200v as well as 110 and clamps on. Does have to be wired in to for it’s power supply and ground.
Also, Kill-a-Watt clones. $9.99. Shows you how much plug in things use.
Offhand things that might help:
- Hot water heater on a timer and turn down the thermostat. There wil be bitching.
- If you have an electric stove, inductance stoves are supposed to be the most efficent, but you probably can’t afford one. Electric kettles for boiling water probably beat using a stove to heat water.
- Use a kill-a-watt to figure out what is using juice when appliances/TV/PC/etc. is on standbym
- Check freezer temp, it may be colder than you have to have it, turn up the thermostat.
- Check anything with a motor that plugs in with the kill-a-watt, like box fans to see if they’re pulling too much juice, when the motor bearings get shitty, you’ll pull more over coming friction.
- Use that clamp meter to check things like whole house blower fans, bathroom fans.
Good luck.
i noticed my parents electricity, and water has increased in price but not super high.
So many people just turn on the AC without doing anything on preventing heat in the first place. Things you can do before the AC needs to help:
- open all windows in the morning when it is cool. Close them when it gets hotter. This traps the cool air inside.
- shade your windows (those overhang things on windows, tint film, curtains, plant a tree)
- stop using machines that produce heat (oven, vacuum cleaner, dryer, etc)
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OK, fair point. I was a bit naive. I was looking at it from an European standpoint. The nights are cool here and the houses are all made of bricks and very thick insulation. In those circumstances it is possible to trap the temperature. In my house the inside temperature is currently 22C/71F and outside 34C/93F. No AC needed.
Ah yeah let me check my thermometer after a whole night of ventilation… yeah it’s still 27, down from 28 last night whooo. And this is my bedroom which is towards north.
European living in a “temperate climate” here. A decade ago, I didn’t need AC. Temperatures over 30 happened for a few days at a time a couple times per summer. Heatwaves that killed old folk with sustained temperatures over 35 for a week happened once a decade.
Now it’s the norm. We see temperatures in May that would only have been possible in the peak of August in the mid-2000s. We see temperatures over 35 everyday for weeks at a time. When it finally rains, it doesn’t cool down anymore. It just gets unbearably humid. Temperatures at night don’t fall down below 28 after a few days.
Even worse. My living room, home office and kitchen are in full sunlight the whole afternoon. I can live in the dark, but the walls have a thick insulation. Insulation doesn’t deflect heat, it stores it and slows it down. It’s literally accumulating heat as soon as a single sun ray touches it. Once the heat creeps through, they stay hot and radiate for a week. You could ventilate all you want, you can’t fight the thermal mass of a wall heated through its core up to 45C.
Climate change transformed my mild-winters, warm-summer region into a rainy-winters, unbearably hot summers region in a few decades.
I was looking at it from an European standpoint.
Nah, I’m in Europe too and my external thermometer last night recorded a minimum temperature of 26,6°C, it’s on the wall so real temperature was probably 25. My apartment is at the last floor of an old building, so insulation isn’t good…
My roller shutters (external, real European ones) and awnings are automated to maximize airflow and reduce sunlight exposure, but in August my AC never turns off.
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For this bad advice I am sentencing you to spend a full summer in the rural American south, where it’s 38 C with 100% humidity in the middle of the night, with no ability to feed yourself other than baking bread and cooking. I’d love to see you eschewing your dryer to hang your clothes out on a clothesline, in air that has more water in it than the wet clothes do.
It is like when I tried the travel advice to wash my clothes in my hotel room sink. Well in East Asia the humidity is so high and the AC in the rooms so weak that my clothes would just be soaking wet in the morning. I think that only works if you are vacationing in, say, Arizona.
Your comment made me laugh.
It’s practical advice for the naive, who live in temperate climates. Those with actual inhospitable summers are just not having it.
Top tips. Also avoid bonfires inside the house and consider sleeping in a 8f deep pit.
Saddam had the right idea:
Bro really was ahead of his time. Using natural geothermal sources of environmental temperature meditation even when surrounded by oil.
“I did this!”
- trump
AI too. The power to build out all those datacenters isn’t coming from new generation unless it’s methane belching shit like X’s colossus and that’s just offsetting the shitty garbage into the atmosphere instead of your power bill. And Trump is very much neck deep in AI, crypto and all the attendant bubble garbage.
I wanted to install solar when I bought my home.
The home I ended up getting had a beautiful oak tree probably several hundred years old. Which is directly blocking most of my roof on a small lot.
Not much sun to be had.
I mean it does sorta save you money on cooling via shade
Also it gives them a proper place to sacrifice apostates to the one eyed god.
Of course can’t forget that
You elected him; you should pay for his decisions. Seems fair.
I voted against him. Why am I paying for his decision? Does that seem fair?
STFU.
Someone regretting their vote?
Nope.
He is also doing many things contradictory to what he said he would do during his campaign. An issue with politicians doing things that they were not “elected” on the premise of. Then we can just go down the rabbit hole of if elections are rigged, blatant corruption, so on. The people should not pay for the decisions of a government that doesn’t take care of its citizens
That’s not how democracy works
None of this is how a democracy, let alone a government works. Yet they continue to get away with it
Not just them
But many European countries were largely saved from energy price hikes thanks to investing in renewables:
Between solar panels and a home battery my electricity bill is negative during summer months. As in I produce more than I need so I’m selling back to the grid.
During the winter when I don’t get enough from solar with my battery and dynamic pricing I can buy electricity when prices are low so I don’t pay high prices during peak hours.
In the Netherlands my electric prices have remained steady but gas went up substantially.
Electricity prices went up to 2.60 yesterday at 20:00, not very stable, unless you’re on a fixed contract of course, which is literally the most stable.
Yeah but energy prices have been astronomical since the start of the Ukraine war
Yeah, I have tried to keep my central AC off as much as possible. My power bills over the past year have been insane.
