“È uno schiaffo in faccia”: le famiglie irlandesi pagano l’elettricità il doppio rispetto ai data center
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/its-a-slap-in-the-face-irish-households-are-paying-twice-as-much-for-electricity-as-data-centres/a1352574572.html
di Kloppite16
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What’s the reasoning?
Because they *cost* a lot less for the grid than households do, and because they consume power constantly over 24 hours.
That means that a large amount of their power consumption is overnight when power is far cheaper. As everyone who installs solar panels and a battery is finding out, charging the battery overnight and using that power costs 8c or so, not 25c.
And all large businesses which have a single large grid connection are much, *much* cheaper for Eirgrid to manage than e.g. 10,000 houses on the far end of long rural electricity lines all over a county. There’s only one grid connection point, it’s close to a major grid link, and generally the company have to pay for and maintain their own heavy power equipment or substation themselves.
I’ve genuinely never understood why, universally, for-profit business pay *less* for what they need to operate than people pay for what they need to live.
It’s everything, everything is tax-deductible, every business gets “Incentive” rates. You can try and justify the economic reasons for it all you want but end of the day it’s being clearly communicated to us that Data Centres running Chat GPT is more important to the people in charge than you being able to heat your home
In most countries, households are subsidized by commercial consumers.
In Ireland, households are subsidizing commercial consumers.
The rich get richer
I have a friend that paid €1800 last month.
Lots of reasons, not least bulk purchase.
Much less administration overhead
The excuses from the usual crowd on these threads are becoming farcical