re: Public Service Commission doing work for Data Centers shifting costs onto ratepayers.

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I know you don't see much of the world from your cubicle

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I've worked in 32 countries around the globe and I've walked on all 7 continents which includes Antarctica.

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skilled union labor

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If they were "skilled" they wouldn't need to belong to a union to find a job.

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The power production is for the data centers, not homeowners and businesses,

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Factually incorrect.

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New power plants being built by Entergy in Louisiana, specifically for projects like the Meta AI data center in Richland Parish, are primarily dedicated to serving that customer but are connected to the larger grid.

While designed for the data center, these plants can theoretically supply electricity to other customers, though they are largely financed by the tech giant's energy needs.

“These facilities represent the next step in Entergy Louisiana’s long-term strategy to modernize our generation fleet and deliver reliable, cost-effective power to our customers,” Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May said in a news release. “By investing in efficient technologies and robust infrastructure, we’re ensuring that Louisiana remains a competitive, attractive place to live, work, and do business both today and well into the future.”

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these plants can theoretically supply electricity to other customers

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You probably should have edited that word out.

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You probably should have edited that word out.

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Why?

I copied and pasted that quote word for word.

I would have deleted that word from the quote if I was a dishonest crook like you.

Communities should be fighting back on any data center built near them. They inevitably frick over the local population through higher costs in electricity, increased clean water usage, and instead noise pollution.

They run these places as cheap as possible and don't give a frick about the local community. The employ a few during construction and majority of long term job creation is remote.

They are a net negative and once they become not profitable to retrofit they are abandoned and an eye sore

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Ma'am, please close your legs. Your pussy stinks.

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As I wrote earlier, you have explained your paranoia and dishonesty.

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And once they're built, a contractor electrician will need to visit the data center to install new power whips or do UPS testing, what, once a month?

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I don't know what that entails. My guess is that they negotiate service agreements with local electrical contractors. They could hire and train their own people and travel them to different data centers, but I'm sure they need somebody locally to respond to any kind of emergencies.

They also will have their own full-time maintenance employees who can do a lot of different things and basic tasks, but they'll need technicians in various trades for bigger and more detailed jobs.

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But politicians agree to concessions all over the place that just because the data center is as big as two football fields will "employ a bunch of people."

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Thousands of new jobs during construction. Maybe 100 after the project is done, and they'll bring most of those people from elsewhere. There will be a little more permanent work for skilled tradesman in the area, but that's it.

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My guess is that they negotiate service agreements with local electrical contractors

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That's exactly what it entails. The first data center I worked in was tiny, about 2000 systems to maintain, that had maybe four people dealing with the data center itself (remote access from offsite in 2005 was much shakier than it is now.)

The entre rest of the staff that worked at the company could have been in Palo Alto (150 people) except for those four people and the occasional contractors. I've written "brochures" and statements of work that are pretty clever with wording, usually around a lack of specificity in key areas (saying they'll get 24x7 support without saying where that support is coming from,) etc. That's exactly what the cloud providers/data center operators do when negotiating with government entities for purchase/build agreements and incentive packages. I can spot it immediately, but the smoothbrains that people elect do not.