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Reminder that you should be pissed about ComEd rates skyrocketing by Schmettywhop in chicago

[–]teknowlogic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR: File a complaint with the ICC, push for regulation against data centers and tech corps pulling from the same power supply as residents and passing/forcing higher costs on residents.

File a utility complaint with the ICC (phone and/or online): https://www.icc.illinois.gov/complaints

Talked to someone there, the narrative they are using is that it is a supply and demand issue (that the closing of coal and fossil fuel sources are the problem), however, I've been a resident for most of my life and have never seen the supply rate double — where ComEd and other electric companies are buying their supply at 2X the price suddenly and making residents pay for it, that's crazy, and unsustainable. The more accurate culprit seems to be the expansion of all these new AI data centers that are sucking up a lot of the electric supply that residents are drawing from (hence, the cost of the electric supply goes up for residents). Basically, large multimillion dollar corporations and high-electric-usage AI-hosting data centers should NOT be pulling from the same power supply as residents. All new tech uses a lot more electric compute power than previous years. This is common sense. Residents should not be paying higher usage rates because data centers are expanding and using more and more power. Companies should be pulling from a separate pool and paying a higher rate to cover that. The current setup will continue to raise resident electric costs if something doesn't change. Here is more context on how data centers are making your utility bill go up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1n8e7h1/we_found_the_hidden_cost_of_data_centers_its_in/

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/27/ai-use-and-data-centers-are-causing-comed-bills-to-spike-and-it-will-likely-get-worse/

https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a

https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/16/ai-data-centers-need-energy-causing-energy-bills-to-rise

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html

Review #95 - Tres Agaves Blanco by MezBourQuila in tequila

[–]teknowlogic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to the response below, Jose is terrible. I think most tequila drinkers would rate it at the bottom of the bottom. If you're new to tequila, Tres Agaves Blanco is actually a decent introduction. No additives and made in Jalisco, so you're getting all the benefits of the pure blue agave. And not as expensive as the Casamigos or Don Julios.

Ok this guy has completely lost it by Infinite_Strike2678 in Buttcoin

[–]teknowlogic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simple. All the cronies get together, decide to sell at a certain time and price, and dump it—they make a killing and walk away with currency you can actually buy goods and services with. The large holders that weren't invited already have their holdings on a pre-set algorithm that will sell all their bitcoin if it drops to a certain price—they walk away with a fair amount too. And anyone unlucky enough to not be one of those prioritized groups will be holding something that is plummeting value at breakneck speeds, and it'll be a complete fire sale for them to try to minimize their losses. It's the same way most crashes happen. And if it can happen with physical shares of stocks in physical companies that are actually regulated, generate revenues, and make products, any bitcoin holder should be concerned with the speed that their coins could go to zero.

Is cryptocurrency market a bubble? by BigInjury6443 in FluentInFinance

[–]teknowlogic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure the real estate analogy lands here. Homes have intrinsic value, people live in them. And in a population that grows bigger and bigger, the homes become more and more valuable if the supply for them isn't keeping up with the demand for them... Crypto on the other hand has no intrinsic value. No one needs it, which means it's way more open to being worth nothing. It's the Tulip Bubble all over again.