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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ohh wow maybe mega corps can pay for their own infrastructure

Pretty plz?

We tired boss.jpeg

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 10 months ago

we are all in this together, mate 🤡