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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ (www.404media.co)
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Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.

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[-] Photonic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

They also cut the taxes the corporations pay by 50%, at least they didn't have to build homes or anything useless.

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