← Back to context Comment by smarf 5 hours ago > more power to themthat seems to be the idea! 5 comments smarf Reply rockemsockem 5 hours ago Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices. nemomarx 5 hours ago https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers...It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Sounds like a great idea dymk 5 hours ago Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
rockemsockem 5 hours ago Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices. nemomarx 5 hours ago https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers...It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Sounds like a great idea dymk 5 hours ago Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
nemomarx 5 hours ago https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers...It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Sounds like a great idea
dymk 5 hours ago Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right? rockemsockem 2 hours ago Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.
https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers...
It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region?
Sounds like a great idea
Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right?
Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.