Did not expect that kind of law change from such an aggressively Conservative government. I guess, there is ample reason to put the NIMBYs into overdrive, though...
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
312 points (98.8% liked)
Technology
84463 readers
3982 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I think public finally began to understand that they subsidize the DC electric bill. And that immediately makes it everyone's issue.
Yeah, let's build data centers where it's hot, humid, and affected by severe weather...
ಠ_ಠ
Oh but don’t worry, incentivizing private companies to build means they’ll innovate ways to overcome all that. You’ll see!
Am I interpreting this wrong or is this news not a good thing? Like saying the state isn't going to subsidize these costs?
It’s sarcasm, mocking people in the administration and those funding the data centers who have made these claims.
(Because we all know it’s 1000% bullshit; they’ll find ways to make local governments subsidize them when they come across issues.)
It’s like the market correcting itself.
Look - US ai companies gonna lose ai race to China.
Already china models are almost on par quality wise and a lot less expensive.
They also have a firewall and we don't - so they can have our data, but we can't have theirs.
So why even torture population with high electric bills?
There is no international AI race by the way. If anything it's a game of hot potato. Competing to not be the one holding it when the crash happens.
Race... to what end? It's only about money. And some superficial idiots having that money, believing they can summon their AGI god on top of a digital parrot. Ok, money and power fantasies.
I think everyone saw $$$-printer that AWS is and now the most evil people you know are trying to emulate it. That will buy them a lot of chocolate.
Right? Qwen 3.6 27B is fantastic, for example. Data centers need to stop hoarding all the hardware so we can afford to run models like that.
Yeah I'm using that as we speak actually.
Qwen studio mobile app is free - I'm running 3.6 plus model it's free.
Same with recent kimi, minimax, deepseek models are great - all these companies have mobile apps and coding agents I can pay and use today. https://qwen.ai/qwencode
Already it's leaked that cursor's composer 2.0 model is based on Kimi 2.5.
Anthropic/openai sky high valuations are based on a notion they will be that ones left standing and bunch of humans gonna be fired and companies gonna be paying ai rent. But that assumes little competition. What we are seeing is totally different - open models caught up, china actively selling it. US ai companies thus will never be able to just jack prices - as there is tons of competition.
Uh, I'm sorry but power companies were just granted permission to raise rates in Florida over the next 4 years. It's been described by at least one news organization as the largest increase in US history. Prompted me to go solar. I could have sworn the article said part of it was for infrastructure build out.
Yeah, here is one:
Seems like a "win-win" for the power companies to me. Not sure what your problem is.
Were you required to get an insurance policy for your solar system or was it not big enough
Mandatory solar panel insurance on homes in uninsurable hurricane magnet land? Sure why not.
I'm sure DeSantis will find some way to tongue their asses. Might as well keep building those data centers until the state sinks into the ocean I guess.
Buried near the bottom:
At the same time, the law lets local governments enter into non-disclosure agreements with companies for up to a year, temporarily limiting public access to details about proposed projects.
Hiding water usage is apparently a standard tactic the proponents of these projects use so they can straight up lie about their drain on the environment. I also didn't see anything in the article about any kind of pollution.
Yep, I'm in the great lakes region and I am just bracing for the onslaught of propaganda from these fools wanting our water.
until the state sinks into the ocean I guess
this will greatly reduce cooling costs
This sounds like a great idea. Would love to see more states follow suite. Is there something I'm missing it looks like people are very negative about this.
"I want you to pay me bigger ~~bribes~~ political donations that definitely don't affect my impartiality." 😉
This headline highlights how insano the conventional wisdom has been. Consider a similar headline announcing the situation before:
"Multi-Billion Dollar Venture Capital Backed Money Evaporator Factory Generously Subsidized By Tax-paying Public"
I am surprised they are not on their knees and loosening their throats but I guess a broken clock is right every now and then.
Shit... don't worry about power, just build another reactor. Even though NO ONE will accept their waste any longer, you can always put it in the road asphalt. As long as no one is walking near the road, no problem!
I'm surprised FLA doesn't glow at night.