• chonglibloodsport
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    16 hours ago

    No if we really want to do that, we’ll jack up the price of electricity. The US imports a lot of electricity from Canada and it doesn’t have any other sources for it. US electricity demand has been skyrocketing due to data centre usage, so a massive price hike will grind the whole Al economy to a halt.

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      7 hours ago

      This might be overselling it. Only some provinces produce/export and only some states benefit, mostly regional and mostly northern states. There would certainly be an impact, especially short term, but claiming it hits their entire infrastructure is a stretch.