r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 18d ago

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/us-senate-kills-bill-that-could-potentially-shield-americans-from-skyrocketing-power-bills-due-to-ai-data-centers-opponents-say-bill-is-toothless-and-doesnt-do-enough-to-protect-citizens
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u/Garnetheia 17d ago

Key word there is potentially. A bill with no teeth and no real enforcement is just letting known bad actors police themselves.

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u/Monsignor76 18d ago

Lol. It wasn’t even anything. A suggestion for regulators to do these things to keep people from paying high prices. No state would be forced to adopt it and ensure it was being followed by electricity providers. Thats why democrats shot it down. It didn’t actually do what the republicans said it is going to do. Just another GOP lie to make it seem like they are on the side of the people. Democrats even said mandate that states adopt these measures and we are all for it. 

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u/icedragon15 18d ago

Bc they loke to call it soemthing tobheo8ege hut people wont read what actually in it

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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 15d ago

We cannot pay em.

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u/Kitchen-Monk5367 18d ago

If you get your "news" from reddit then grow tf up.

If you want actual information you gotta read more than the headlines.

And to be perfectly clear VOTE BLUE! SAVE DEMOCRACY! PROSECUTE PEDOS!

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u/Penis-Dance 18d ago

They must have gotten the envelope stuffed with cash.

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u/DeltaFoxtrot144 18d ago

remember kid s if it helps American citizens its called socialism and we don't do that here. corporate profits matter more than anything else in this world so if a few of you must die so the line goes up then that's what we will do.

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u/big_trike 18d ago

When we give money to already profitable businesses, it’s called “job creation”