Pedro Domingos: data centers lower electricity rates by paying the same overhead as residents
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-02
Responding to criticism that data centers drive up electricity prices, Pedro Domingos argues the opposite: data centers pay the same overhead rates as residential customers while having far lower overhead costs, so at scale they push electricity rates down rather than up.
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