Comment by ffsm8
19 hours ago
You're talking about select industries which are being supported via subventions, data centers are not included. If you pay attention to the wording in your cited article, they've said so as well.
And hetzner does not have a large upsell for their energy prices, they're pretty much passing in the price as-is according to their own statements (from the large increase to 40c)
Almost all commercial applications need to pay the quoted prices around what's shown in figure 6
Ok, it seems I am mistaken that this subsidy applies to datacenter (apparently there is ongoing discussions to include them for this reason).
That said - I 100% don't believe that hertzner are simply passing on the price for their colo clients. Where did you read that they are not making a profit off electricity resale?
Here is another link discussing industrial energy prices WITHOUT reductions: https://www.smard.de/page/en/topic-article/213922/216044
So less than 17c/kWh in 2024, and likely another 2c when adjusted for current wholesale prices and network fees.