• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.

    “All politics is local.”

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      3 days ago

      In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.

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        Don’t know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well…

        We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.

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      You’ll find that representative democracy is not all that representative.