Data Centers

[RidgeRunner76]

Blink twice if there’s sex dungeons.

Unsure of sex Dungeons, but I know of 1 Aero/Defense Company that has a full beer garden in their lunch/break room......

 

[Aperventure]

It's just a massive, secure, distributed network of hard drives somewhere else.

Except when it’s not secure

 

[Nick87]

Even if they employed every union worker in the valley, most of that money would leave the area.

Gotcha. I know that nobody wants a data center (I certainly dont and we do them everyday). But I dont understand how that's a bad thing for every union employee in your valley, If they're gonna build it anyway.

 

[Irrelevant]

Gotcha. I know that nobody wants a data center (I certainly dont and we do them everyday). But I dont understand how that's a bad thing for every union employee in your valley, If they're gonna build it anyway.

True, but you could also say they are working on data centers instead working on something else. We don't have appreciable unemployment

 

[Nick87]

True, but you could also say they are working on data centers instead working on something else. We don't have appreciable unemployment

I get it I'm just saying if it ends up going through anyway try to make the best of it and make a little money.

 

[Gulf of America]

With the caveat that I'm increasingly turning into the old man yells at cloud meme when it comes to tech and AI, and that I think the data revolution is causing way more harm than good for society as a whole, and the caveat that there are environmental concerns and data centers are a blight on the landscape, I recognize that they have to be somewhere and I'm not wholesale against their existence, even in my state. But I am very opposed to our monopoly utility giving them sweetheart deals on energy infrastructure that everyone else will pay to develop while giving them priority if demand outweighs supply, and I'm very opposed to cities and counties trying to woo them with tax breaks. It feels like they're going around testing locations trying to make it seem like there's a bidding war to get them, and politicians are buying it hook, line, and sinker.

 

[SAJ-99]

I get it I'm just saying if it ends up going through anyway try to make the best of it and make a little money.

We all end up paying in the end. We have a ton of these data centers this side of the state because of the availability of electricity from the dams (which is declining). Some of them were bitcoin mining centers and we had similar discussions on what is best for everyone, not just the contractors who build the centers.

Avista seeks to raise residential price for electricity by about 25% by 2030

Avista Utilities announced Friday that it has proposed a four-year general rate increase for Washington customers that calls for a 13.9% increase for average residential users starting in 2027.

www.spokesman.com