"I don't think it's a coincidence that activists protest both data centers and nuclear power plants. To them there's nothing worse than generating more energy and using it for some grand industrial purpose." @mualphaxi explains how he thinks they have it totally wrong: overregulation increases energy prices, not data centers. "You just have to look at the map of California vs. Virginia. Virginia is the data center capital of the United States, and it has utility prices that are more or less in line with where you would want them to be." "California's have gone up massively over the past few years, and it doesn't take long to investigate why. It's because they're shutting down nuclear. It's because they're making it difficult to do cheap energy." "Lowering prices across the board, affordability—you really can achieve it by just letting markets work."