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Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and manufacturing booms are pushing the US power grid to the brink and utilities can't keep up (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The future of power in America is obvious. State governments will make corrupt deals with data centers and factories to keep their electricity costs low, and raise prices on residential users to compensate until poor families are priced out.

Buy your solar panels now. Before electricity changes from a right to a privilege.

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[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

I’ve since been focusing on less tech related interests. I’m attempting to work towards a minimal tilling garden. I maintain my own bicycle. I’ve recently picked up whittling. I have a bunch of untreated wood I can use and the wood shavings can be used in my garden. I am working towards simplicity after burning out hard from technology related complexity.

It's so similar to what happened to me, and I think quite a few others, one could almost believe some good forces of nature guide us towards better ways. I tend a garden, make colored pencil drawings that take a few weeks to complete. Walk a lot. Try to consume local as much as I can. For two years the burnout was so bad even other people and the need to use spoken words to communicate with them was too complex.