Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% : goodnewseveryone

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago

I'm confused why this isn't being done everywhere.

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 62 points 2 months ago

Bribes.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 22 points 2 months ago

most of the states, govorners have been bribed, whitmer, mills,,etc. the gop are all on board.

[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 75 points 2 months ago

This is the way.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

But what if they pass on the expense to their users?

Then it'd be an even bigger win.

[-] jumperalex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, they kinda of have to. I don't know that any data centers are running at a profit yet and that's even after they've switched to usage pricing; with the increased burn rate there's no way they can't raises price sooner rather than later.

ETA: but make no mistake, they will do anything they can to just make multiple smaller data centers that stay under the 20MW bend point. Maybe the economics will make sense, maybe it won't. Hopefully the 20MW and 30% figures involved some math by a bean counter to conclude the economics won't make sense.

[-] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Proud of my state, mostly.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 months ago

Same, we drop the ball at times but overall I like where we're headed.

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Good shit

[-] sagoglex@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago

I mean theres only so much money can do. You cant have infinite growth on a finite planet. Water doesnt grow on money.

[-] Marija_@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

Seems fair

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

My people 🥰

[-] Atropos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We're not perfect here, but we do make some good choices!

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Hey. Speak for yourself. 🤪

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What had Steyer said his ideas for California were? He kept saying he was going to take on the power companies but can't recall policy papers.

[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago

This has nothing to do with "fair share" you people are deranged. This is simple cost and profit calculation

[+] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lol, 1.3% is meaningless

So what did they do with the rest of the money?

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are only so many data centers, so by hiking their rates 30% then they were able to reduce the already paid rate of probably 1.5M households by 1.3%. They didnt increase everyones rates 30% and then reduce it to 28.7% for the residential customer.

1.3% is pretty significant when youre talking about over a million accounts. Data centers use a ton of energy but thats a handful of accounts by comparison (or literally)

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

But nothing is good and everything sucks so this is invalid

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Have you seen other power companies lowering prices instead of increasing them?

Good News Everyone