▲ 490 ▼ Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 3 months ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/goodnewseveryone@piefed.social 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (1 child) But what if they pass on the expense to their users? Then it'd be an even bigger win. permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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. permalink fedilink source parent