[smarf]

> more power to them

that seems to be the idea!

[rockemsockem]

Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.

[nemomarx]

https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers...

It seems like that has pretty substantial time lag. Maybe require the ai companies to build power plants before they're allowed to build data centers in a certain region?

[rockemsockem]

Sounds like a great idea

[dymk]

Like how demand for RAM and hard drives drove prices of those down, because of all that greater investment, right?

[rockemsockem]

Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.

[dymk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

[rockemsockem]

Cool, one blip.

https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_time...