ETA: utility companies make profit on capex, not opex
Are Americans really getting stickershock from $2B? Lets search some random numbers + "Maryland"
They invested $1B in quantum computing. Crickets.
$10B dollar purple line
$9B dollar missed pension returns, $3B directly to wallstreet hedgefunds POOF! (Explains why the stock market rises as the country takes on more and more debt)
The list literally goes on and on, probably over $30B of sunk costs into either nothing, planning or infrastructure that wasn't properly maintained.
>WBAL News Radio
>6 days ago — Congressman Andy Harris says the cost of the Key Bridge rebuild was
>nearing $10 billion, and that's the reason the state won't go forward
What's the traffic for this $5B-$10B bridge? 34,000.
America's energy infrastructure has been chronically under-invested for the last 60 years, widening the gap between young and old. All the articles talking about the cost of AI are written by entrenched forces that AI have already replace, their free money from infrastructure scams.
Was your comment trying to normalize this, or blame citizens?
But also, the price of grid upgrades are more and more often being passed directly to customers and you don’t really get a choice of whether or not you’re a customer.
Presumably they'd like the infrastructure spending to go to infrastructure that improves their lives in some way. I somehow doubt that, when complaining, the vast majority of said people had in mind "let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars on datacenters while everything else crumbles".
I complain about not enough direct flights from my local airport, if they put in a bunch of direct flights for billionaires only I would complain even harder.
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