Hilarious dude. I’ve designed some of the things you mention. Data centers consume power, a shit ton of it. The idea that the demand is increasing but the price won’t is bonkers to me. And that’s before you consider all the labor going towards building new infrastructure for these things rather than repairing our existing grid. This trend is absolutely ravaging our industry. I’m being asked to design GREENFEILD fossil fuel gen stations to feed gigawatt scale data centers. How is that not insane? We as a society are burning our planet for LLMs

I think you’re glossing over how interconnected the grid is. California does not generate it’s own power, it buys a significant amount from Oregon. So if data centers are being built in Oregon, that will impact costs in California. For instance, there’s a DC link from the dams on the Columbia in eastern oregon that goes directly to southern California, and that area is now absolutely littered with data centers. Like a whole city of them right by the dams. They are there specifically for the cheap land and cheap hydro energy. And they use A LOT. Obviously I’m not packing any numbers here but I also wasnt born yesterday. Zero chance that all that load, there specifically, isn’t impacting prices.