US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms

Re:US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data c... by aiaisiskbs on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:42PM (#44524166)

Yep, same deal with birth rates and immigration. Instead of taking money from the rich to enable more native births we import cheap/exploitable labor. The wealthy don’t bear the cost but reap the benefits. And they’ll hand wave some trickle down economics argument about GDP going up to say we all benefit.

Same exact logic as increasing everyone’s rates due to datacenter demand.

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Re:US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data c... by jakelazaroff on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:57PM (#44524293)

To be clear: the issue is not the immigration itself but that we allow wealthy people and corporations to exploit immigrants, right?

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Re:US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data c... by vkou on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:05PM (#44524389)

> taking money from the rich to enable more native births

Wealthier, more cohesive and communal and less-unequal societies, with better education and medical and child care support across the world have dramatically fewer native births than the US.

Unless you're planning on forcing women to have children at gunpoint[1], or banning all forms of contraception[2], or making everyone stupid and poor[3], there doesn't seem to any way to raise birthrates in industrialized societies.

Exploitation of migrant/temporary/undocumented workers is a separate problem.

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[1][2][3] These do seem to all be on the roadmap for people whose political sails are most closely aligned with nativist anxieties. And I have not a drop of tolerance for any of them.

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