Comment on AI Electric Bills
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 2 days agoColombia has price discrimination for residential areas: households in richer areas have to pay more than those in poorer areas. I don’t know how good the actual implementation works out for the people there, but it was in effect when I was there more than 10 years ago and it still seems to be (see “estratos” here: enel.com.co/…/pliego-tarifario-enel-diciembre-202…). If that is possible for different areas of one city, of course we could make data centers pay more for 1 kWh than a private consumer would.
It just won’t happen in our hyper-capitalist north american and european countries.
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 2 days ago
I don’t know how wide spread smart meters are in the US, but it should be fairly simple so have an extra tariff on these kind of consumers, or perhaps just tariffs during peak periods.
At least it could be enforced that the surplus heat from data centers had to be reused in some way, could be residental heating or ptx.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Smart meters aren’t necessary for that. We already have different rates for different usage levels.
Smart meters are more useful to vary rates by time of day, to help adjust demand for the level of supply