Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater invest...

nemomarx · 2026-04-09T20:33:50 1775766830

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 · 2026-04-09T23:04:23 1775775863

Sounds like a great idea

dymk · 2026-04-09T20:40:53 1775767253

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

rockemsockem · 2026-04-09T23:04:50 1775775890

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

dymk · 2026-04-10T20:53:27 1775854407

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

rockemsockem · 2026-04-11T07:24:36 1775892276

Cool, one blip.

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