When the PBS reporter asked the energy consultant about electricity prices, you knew he was trying to be fair, you know, both sides of the story. Wasn’t it true that having an AI center in the area might lower electricity prices? Yes, the consultant replied, because the electric industry’s costs are largely fixed, so if it had excess capacity and could spread those costs over more customers (AI facilities, presumably), that would lower costs to all customers. Fixed costs, economics 101. Then he said that where there was no excess capacity,…
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