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Re:High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States by fridif on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:10AM (#27980692)
It feels wrong to ban the sale of a product on the basis that "it might be used on the electrical grid".

There is nothing stopping me from buying a PC and running it on my own off grid solution.

If the power companies don't like my power consumption, they should simply implement solutions on their end, like charging me more money proportional to my usage.

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Re:High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States by Meandering on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:18AM (#27980752)
It seems that charging a premium on energy use beyond a certain threshold would be far more effective. The carbon-cost of investigating high-end consumer electronics might actually be more than the few PCs that would be purchased.
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Re:High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States by TheMightyLlama on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:23AM (#27980783)
Similar to how broadband is charged? On the flipside of that, energy users could also have their energy throttled based on the number of consumers in the household.

You have x energy credits as part of the package, if you don't want to pay over that then your energy will, of course, be throttled.

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Re:High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States by tehjoker on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:18AM (#27980750)
You can build it yourself then. They're banning complete packages which is much more likely to reduce grid power consumption.
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Re:High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States by pedroma on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:18AM (#27980749)
Power companies do like your power consumption. It's the state that doesn't, but they also want you to keep buying electric cars.
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