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12h ago

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New Bill Would Force Data Centers to Pay Their Own Power Costs

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newsweek.com A bill introduced this week would require data centers to cover the full incremental cost of meeting their power requirements.

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VinnyMaxta

12h ago

Why wouldn't they?

b_a_t_m_4_n

12h ago

The fact that a new law has to be passed for this to be a thing is incredible.

GoreckiMike

3h ago

Why would a data center not pay their own costs?

Prometheus_303

7h ago

Maybe this is a stupid question...

But why would they ever not be expected to pay their own utility bills?

Why would Google, Facebook, Apple, et al be allowed to open a data center and get free electricity to power it / have the residents living in the community pay for it rather than…