re: Oh look, another data center coming to Central LA

Louisiana’s low electricity rates are exactly what attracted the data centers — and it will raise electricity rates in Louisiana.

For reference, Boeing factory in Washington is the largest manufacturing plant in the US. It uses roughly 15-43 Megawatts. The Meta data center in Richland Parish will use up to 5Gigawatts! Entergy is planning 5.2 GW in additional gas generation.

In Tahoe, residents are losing their utility provider due to the company giving preference to data center over residents. “ Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers”
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I’m not anti-AI — I used AI to help write this post. However, Nobody wants these data centers in their backyard. They use insane amounts of power and raise energy rates. Entergy makes a boatload of money but there is local air pollution from massive amounts of needed power generation from gas and in 10 years when Elon builds data centers in space, these terrestrial centers will be completely obsolete leaving Louisiana with the blight.

Entergy pledges meta is going to pay for its full cost of service. Guess we will see…