Comment by dagi3d
13 hours ago
> San Diego power cost is over 40c/kWh, ~3x the global average. It’s a ripoff, and overpriced simply due to political dysfunction.
Mind anyone elaborate? Always thought this is was a direct cause of the free market. Not sure if by dysfunction the op means lack of intervention.
Electricity cost in California is generally more expensive than most other US states, except Hawaii. Not sure why.
Perhaps Comma needed the datacenter to be in San Diego for latency or other reasons, but if they need it mostly for compute, it would have been cheaper to operate their datacenter elsewhere... but if we keep going down that path, maybe it actually becomes cheaper to rent a cloud after all.
Did you say “free market”? There is one provider. There is a lot of regulation, mostly incompetent. It’s a mess.
>Mind anyone elaborate? Always thought this is was a direct cause of the free market. Not sure if by dysfunction the op means lack of intervention.
The majority of Californians have no say and cannot choose their utilities provider. This is the polar opposite of the "free market".