I hope my state requires the same.
But, it should be more--pay the full cost of expanding the power grid plus some additional amount beyond what they need for the use of the state, and pay for ongoing maintenance of the expansion.
Why? Because fuck 'em, that’s why.
Because that’s fair, and these people should have to pay true market value and the cost of healing the environmental damage. If that includes desalinization and reforestation, so be it.
Oregon ratepayers have been hit with six consecutive years of rate increases amid what PGE says is an unprecedented rise in demand for electricity, of which data centers are a major driver.
Fun fact, the biggest shareholder of Portland general electric is blackrock.
The IOU model for utility ownership is fundamentally unacceptable. These utilities should be publicly owned.
100% agree, especially considering it’s a monopoly and I literally have no choice in electric provider. I’m a captive customer who must pay what I’m charged, I can’t shop around or “vote with my dollar”, and I can’t go without electricity, I’m legally obligated to keep services connected to my home.
huh. just thinking out loud. i’m wondering what it would take to have a nice little balcony solar panel i could plug into my rooftop array and then maybe unplug and take camping with me. or unplug and use as an emergency supply when the grid goes down and plug into my camping inverter because that’s how i’d be using it anyways, and then i can get rid of that big ugly gas generator in the yard.
i figured out how to get it to work camping already, i am just thinking about the roof part. i should probably get an expert if i do it. i ain’t wanna fuck with the electrical on the house more than a switch.
I’ve been thinking something very similar. I don’t have any existing solar but there’s these balcony solar setups, that are all the rage in Germany, coming to the US, that just plug in to a regular outlet or battery storage. Not enough for whole house power, but with a good enough battery system you could probably get decent runtime for essential power needs.
Look up Jackery
That will absolutely decimate Oregon’s job market when companies take all 20 data center jobs to another state.
DATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!!
For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site?
Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
Dont forget that every last one of the construction workers will come from out of the area and are supporting families someplace else.
Not a hundred. We’re talking a dozen on a busy day. Last time I was on-site I didn’t see another soul for hours.
It will be quietly repealed or ignored entirely
Another option that has actually happened in other places: sue them into compliance! It doesn’t even matter if you win or not, what matters is making people look down the barrel of legislative costs while you have infinite money!
Or they will find another state that is cheaper for them to build in.
Idaho
+1 for Idaho, they deserve it.
