Billionaries are willing to have us make that sacrifice!

not to mention you'll get much farther, faster & easier with timers on the lights than some sort of 100% voluntary participation dream.

"Who needs public schools anyway? I pay my kid's teachers salary directly."

It is also often a violation of the Clean Air Act but we don't have good regulation in place to actually hold them accountable

In more ways than one: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-mus...

First of all, the grid is interconnected. Some random city building an AI datacenter could absolutely trigger price increases in a different part of the state. Second of all, Novva Data Centers is in fact building a $500m campus. In addition to all that is that the war against Iran is causing electricity prices to spike basically everywhere. PG&E is also currently modernizing its grid and doing wildfire hardening across the state. The solar subsidies has also meant that grid subsidization costs have been shifted onto non-solar customers.

That's because San Francisco subsidizes the rest of the state, PG&E is a state-wide utility. San Francisco is attempting to run its own utility, but is meeting resistance from PG&E and the parts of the state SF subsidizes.

Well I think the problem there is called “welcome to California.”

I love California and occasionally think about moving there. But the cost of living considerations bring me back to reality. Despite all its problems, it's difficult to leave Texas due to the low cost of living (and HEB!)

I might argue that we already have data centers, we just call then Colo Facilities.

Maybe it would help remove unless and harmful tech from schools. Books don't need batteries.

We can't leave money on the table for all those below average prices - so let's raise them all to the average... oh wait

True. But asking schools to conserve electricity while encouraging data centers to waste it is perverse.

Yes, absolutely. This memo implies that with the same measures they could have saved 80% of the amount, regardless of the rate change. If that is significant they should have done this long ago.