It’s raising questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others and whether it’s fair to excuse big power users from paying for the grid. Federal regulators are trying to figure out what to do about it, and quickly.
Front and center is the data center that Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, is building next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant in eastern Pennsylvania.
The arrangement between the plant’s owners and AWS — called a “behind the meter” connection — is the first such to come before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For now, FERC has rejected a deal that could eventually send 960 megawatts — about 40% of the plant’s capacity — to the data center. That’s enough to power more than a half-million homes.
If there only was a way to produce electricity without having to rely on quasi-monopolies…
Just rely on a government monopoly! Quebec has the cheapest electricity in North America, it didn’t happen randomly…
but that kind of socialism only works in Europe how about an American example
Quebec in Europe? 🤔
sorry I should have been conscious of how realistic this comes across in online discourse, I was being facetious
But that costs a lot of money! Money that is far better sitting in an account gaining interest!