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SoftTalker
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We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in ...
Prices are actually driven by value. How much do you want the thing? Do data centers value power? I would think so, since they cannot operate without it. Utilities should be charging them a premium.
dist-epoch
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If utilities charge them a premium, why would they sell power to those which do not pay the premium instead of auctioning all power?
LargeWu
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Because they're theoretically regulated and ordered to do so. The market for power is not a free market due to the locally monopolistic nature of it.
datadrivenangel
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Things cost exactly what we pay for them.
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