• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    But that leaves the utilities with alle the risk,

    Not if you make the data center pay for it.

    If a consumer wants a utility upgrade, the consumer pays all costs upfront. I know this because my neighbor works for the power company and was trying to get gas lines run to our neighborhood. The cost the power company would charge us was hundreds of thousands which even divided by the number of homes meant it would never pay off vs outlr existing cost for propane delivery.