Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair

The inefficient models of the Western AI companies needs a lot of energy to power large amounts of hardware. Both energy companies and chip companies like Nvidia gets a great boost. Then DeepSeek comes along and did the same thing for less than 1% of the energy cost.

Nvidya 17%. Siemens Energy 13 to 21%. This is the aftermath of US Tech companies inflating the cost of their AI models for profit, a common practice used by US and the West before the rise of China.

Pop the bubble.

Agreed, with intonation of inefficient models in either case. No one gets it running correctly, not with all combined energy of the planet or universe, and also not in a cheaper cost version. This is mathematically impossible, although US and China still think the rules and laws of mathematics and science are not anymore valid in their big influence zone or could be tweaked a little bit to their favor. This is not going to happen. In this sense yes, pop the bubble, the earlier the better.

Crypto "mines" and data centers should be required by law to generate 100% of their own energy independent of the power grid used by consumers. Arrangements like this in Pennsylvania will drive up electricity rates for consumers and should not be permitted.