sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoA major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power gridwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down13
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minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days ago utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Utility_Commission_of_Texas
minus-squareUniversalBasicJustice@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoDid you even care to read that article? What do you think “investor-owned electric utilities” means? My WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that “competition” and “investor-owned” in the context of public utilities and services kills people. Here, have a Wikipedia article; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoMaybe Texans should elect someone who won’t appoint stooges to the PUC
minus-squarefelbane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoMaybe the United States should pass laws that force public utilities to be owned by the public and operated as a nonprofit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Utility_Commission_of_Texas
Did you even care to read that article?
What do you think “investor-owned electric utilities” means? My WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that “competition” and “investor-owned” in the context of public utilities and services kills people.
Here, have a Wikipedia article;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Maybe Texans should elect someone who won’t appoint stooges to the PUC
Maybe the United States should pass laws that force public utilities to be owned by the public and operated as a nonprofit?