{"id":23274,"date":"2026-10-24T21:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23274"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:18:16","slug":"who-really-pays-for-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23274","title":{"rendered":"Who Really Pays for AI Data Centers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The loudest data centers are actually AI miners. This background noise could be bad for people&#8217;s health, but more research needs to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In areas with spare electric capacity, data centers use this spare capacity and help pay for the grid. But not everywhere has spare capacity, and data centers can use up this capacity quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies come into small towns, and take up a bunch of land to build data centers. They often make the local officials sign to keep the true owners secret, so the residents don&#8217;t know who is changing the landscape of their town or village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies often bribe localities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk started running a bunch of gas plants to power data centers and slid under regulation by making the plants mobile. Portable plants are also less efficient and worse for the environment than permanent ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who Really Pays for AI Data Centers?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyOeLB0WVNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loudest data centers are actually AI miners. This background noise could be bad for people&#8217;s health, but more research needs to be done. <\/p>\n<p>In areas with spare electric capacity, data centers use this spare capacity and help pay for the grid. But not everywhere has spare capacity, and data centers can use up this capacity quick. <\/p>\n<p>Companies come into small towns, and take up a bunch of land to build data centers. They often make the local officials sign to keep the true owners secret, so the residents don&#8217;t know who is changing the landscape of their town or village. <\/p>\n<p>Companies often bribe localities. <\/p>\n<p>Musk started running a bunch of gas plants to power data centers and slid under regulation by making the plants mobile. Portable plants are also less efficient and worse for the environment than permanent ones. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NyOeLB0WVNE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1129,348,1005],"class_list":["post-23274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ai","tag-data","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}