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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move… (www.tomshardware.com)
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Full title: After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

pay for all the required transmission infrastructure that the project will use exclusively.

Emphasis mine. If the AI buildout can claim that the line will serve as a secondary entry point for a neighbourhood they’re not going to pay.

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At least in Northern Virginia where most of the existing data centers are and where most of the announced build out is planned, populations are steady or falling - not a lot of new residential buildouts for them to tie new power capacity to, and current neighborhoods already have existing power capacity built out for them. Anything the data centers ask for is pretty much 100% for their use and not anyone else's.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's still a loophole.

[–] moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yuuup. At the data centers I've been to in VA, there are smaller buildings peppered in which house small businesses. Bet your ass all it takes is a little gyro shop to qualify as sharing the infrastructure.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Oh man! I can get a gyro now??? Sweet deal!!!

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.......I was being sarcastic!