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Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States — mentioned by lordgilman

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:21:59 GMT

I suspect the authors of this paper would like to hear out your evidence for increasing energy prices https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19777 In the United States at least there's been plenty of polling on why people oppose data centers. Consistently, it's water usage and water contamination fears, which is exactly what you see most often in social media and discussed online. I think a lot of high-minded rationalizations are just trying to dodge the embarrassing fact that people simply think data centers are draining municipal and natural water sources.

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Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States — mentioned by pnw

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:04:04 GMT

Neither did the data centers. Datacenters use less than 5% of US electricity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19777

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Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States — HN submission

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:44:20 GMT

Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the US

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