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[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 164 points 5 days ago

And suddenly these same assholes will tell you to turn your ac off because the power grid can't meet demand for some "mysterious" reason.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 63 points 5 days ago

Splurge for me, conserve for thee.

Same with water in CA. Industry uses >80% of water in the state and the focus is on 30 second showers and bullying citizens because their representatives have been captured along with their press in the profit machine.

[-] bear 6 points 4 days ago

Residential homes use about 12% of the consumed fresh water in the United States.

Their whole industries that scrape a bit of profit off of a huge amount of America's water. Like exporting alfalfa grown in a desert.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of the story of Texas paying bitcoin farms millions of dollars not to use energy during heat waves https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

or use less water because the AI center needs it to cool off. its funny how all these AI data centers are only in red states, they dont make a fuss over it, but if they tried this a blue one, people would raise hell over it.

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