US Politics on Yik Yak | We need to unsubsidize electricity for data centers Government subsidies are crazy, which is good for normal people use. But we don’t need those for AI slop.

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We need to unsubsidize electricity for data centers Government subsidies are crazy, which is good for normal people use. But we don’t need those for AI slop.

Anonymous 1w

Energy subsidies are a tiny fraction of government spending, and most of it goes to either making renewable energy viable, or to low income households.

Anonymous

#1 1w

It’s relatively minor, yeah But fossil fuel subsidies total 36 billion per year per the guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/fossil-fuels-subisidies-study

Anonymous

OP 1w

A lot of that doesn’t go to the consumer but to the company for cheap land use etc

Anonymous

OP 1w

Only a fraction of fossil fuel subsidies go towards electricity, and $36 billion is pretty minuscule as a portion of government spending

Anonymous

#1 1w

Well, that should be $0

Anonymous

#2 1w

I agree with that, but I don’t agree that government electricity subsidies are “crazy”