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Captialism is really good at efficiency. But it is not so good at allocation, specifically for essential goods, and that's the problem here.


How do you define what is an essential good here? For electricity I would place most residential usage near the bottom in priority and definitely below a datacenter. People complaining about facing a tradeoff between setting the thermostat a couple degrees higher this summer or facing a higher power bill just doesn't get much sympathy from me.


If you view powering people's homes as a lower priority than powering a data center then there is no reasonable discussion to be had here.


Why do you want to subsidize the data centers of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world?




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