as an electrical engineer who consults for utilities and worked directly for them for about 10 years I can tell you this isn’t directly the case… meaning they didn’t raise rates to force you to use cloud services.
Now what might have happened realistically is the data center is using so much electricity, the utility doesn’t have that kind of capacity available so they have to raise rates to mitigate the difference in energy usage and to also raise revenue to build more infrastructure.
Yup. I sometimes suspect the “higher electric bill” (near datacenters) is to force people to use cloud services, rather than a private cloud method.
as an electrical engineer who consults for utilities and worked directly for them for about 10 years I can tell you this isn’t directly the case… meaning they didn’t raise rates to force you to use cloud services.
Now what might have happened realistically is the data center is using so much electricity, the utility doesn’t have that kind of capacity available so they have to raise rates to mitigate the difference in energy usage and to also raise revenue to build more infrastructure.
Sure, but if the rates are up, you likely won’t run a private cloud setup because financially and administratively, it’s much.