Comment by muddi900

A lot of datacenter are operating their own Natural gas based power generation. Which in itself is a different dynamic than buying electricity.

I have operated such a setup, at a much lower industrial manufacturing scale. The tradeoffs are quite stark. The electricity is cheaper, but generators/turbines need to operate at 80% capacity to be feasible. In the slow hours, they become an albatross.

So they lose more money per user if less people are using the services, but they also lose money overall if more people are using them.