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Across the country, electricity prices have jumped more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living in the last year. That's especially painful during the dog days of summer, when air conditioners are working overtime.

Power-hungry data centers have been popping up all over, to serve the boom in artificial intelligence. The Energy Department projects data centers and other commercial customers will use more electricity than households for the first time ever next year. That's a challenge for policymakers, who have to decide how to accommodate that extra demand and who should foot the bill.

The soaring price of natural gas is also pushing power prices higher. More than 40% of electricity is generated using natural gas. As more gas is exported as liquid natural gas, the competition from foreign customers is driving up the price utilities have to pay here at home.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So weird. It's almost like everything is somehow rising faster than inflation....

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except minimun wage... somehow that hasnt gone up at all

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, see, we can't raise minimum wage because of the - hmm, right.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's because of her emails and his dick being on a computer!

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feels like the meaning of "inflation" has been lost somewhere in there...

[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The meaning of inflation these days is "whatever the corporations think they can get away with charging."

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Corporations phrase it differently: the charge "what the market will support". There's a magic point in an Excel chart where the markup is as high as can be while the sales remain high enough to be profitable. This is the point striven for: maximum profit at any human or environmental cost.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

maximum profit at any human or environmental cost.

Don't be silly. Women can just pop out more ~~slaves~~ workers and climate change is a hoax - floods, fires and hurricanes are a profit opportunity anyway.

[–] TheBenCommandments 1 points 1 day ago

“Favorable market conditions”