Pic Of The Moment: How You're Paying For Billionaires To Get Richer

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14. The big consumers can dictate or negotiate the price the pay.

The little consumers just need to make up the shortfall.

Prices here (South Australia) for household consumers have gone up over the years too, but it's not AI at fault.

More:
1. Government has put up a seawater desalination plant for drought years.
Consumes power even when idle, as it is now.

2. Green energy infrastructure - windmills, solar farms going up.
Closing down older coal fired power stations.

3. Government funded battery emergency standby, enough battery in place to run the system for 30 minutes if country wide interconnects fail.

Our bill for an all electric home adds up to about AU $6K pa.

Quarterly bills, I imagine they will go to monthly bills soon to make it feel more palatable.