Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption
Bender
12 points
5 comments
March 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
GuestFAUniverse
How about a progressive tax? Doesn't seem a good idea that cancer like entities get away with overconsumption and thus indirectly repression.