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		terminalshort 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in ... How do you define what is an essential good here? For electricity I would place most residential usage near the bottom in priority and definitely below a datacenter. People complaining about facing a tradeoff between setting the thermostat a couple degrees higher this summer or facing a higher power bill just doesn't get much sympathy from me.

LargeWu 3 months ago | [–]

If you view powering people's homes as a lower priority than powering a data center then there is no reasonable discussion to be had here.

jimbokun 3 months ago | [–]

Why do you want to subsidize the data centers of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world?

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