2025-12-10 21:32:06

Political storms brewing over those mega data centers in Texas and Louisiana. Meta's facility alone? Guzzling triple the electricity of entire New Orleans. Residents bracing for utility bills to spike.

Bernie's calling out the tech giants—says they're chasing profits while everyday folks foot the energy bill. Classic Silicon Valley move or necessary infrastructure for Web3's future?

But here's the kicker: isn't capitalism supposed to be about making money? Where's the line between innovation and exploitation when your server farm needs its own power grid?

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ApeDegen

· 16h ago

They really drained all the electricity from New Orleans, and they still have the nerve to talk about innovation? Forget it, I'm just going to buy Shiba.

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ArbitrageBot

· 12-11 08:03

Meta's electricity consumption is truly incredible; the entire city of New Orleans doesn't generate enough power for it to consume... Ordinary people are forced to foot the bill—that's the real cost of building Web3 infrastructure.

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FUDwatcher

· 12-11 04:43

It looks like the same old trick again—big tech companies take the meat while the common people drink the soup. But honestly, Web3 infrastructure requires electricity, what can we do?

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DustCollector

· 12-11 01:22

Basically, it's big tech companies bleeding us dry, and ordinary people are footing the bill.

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AlphaLeaker

· 12-10 22:02

Nah, this is just outrageous. Meta's data center is the size of the entire New Orleans? An energy consumption monster. Normal people must feel a lot of pain when paying their electricity bills.

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SchrodingerAirdrop

· 12-10 21:51

Meta's power consumption is incredible, one data center is consuming the entire New Orleans... This is just outrageous.

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Layer2Arbitrageur

· 12-10 21:51

ngl, if you actually do the math on their power consumption vs. network utility generated, the basis points lost to inefficient infrastructure is *insane*. meta's literally leaving like 40-50% optimization on the table. just run better contracts. write better code → optimize gas → extract actual value → repeat. this is mathematically suboptimal and everyone's pretending it's not lol

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SatoshiChallenger

· 12-10 21:44

The irony is, every time this topic comes up, Web3 believers start justifying with the excuse of "necessary infrastructure." Data shows that Meta's electricity consumption is equivalent to the annual power usage of 500,000 households. I'm not trying to be difficult, but before the financial crisis, Wall Street also said, "We are too important; the economy can't function without us." And now? It's interesting—on one hand, they call for decentralization to change the world, and on the other, they rely on a centralized supergrid to survive. Truly a contradiction generator. In reality, it's just cost shifting. The profits go to Meta, while the costs are borne by the people of Louisiana in electricity bills and carbon emissions. Capitalism isn't wrong, but don't pretend it's about saving humanity. I suggest everyone check this data before entering: the growth rate of electricity consumption by the top five data center groups vs. the growth rate of renewable energy. One is soaring, the other is stagnant. How long do you think this can last? Does Web3 really need this level of energy consumption? Or is it just a blame game for a business model? I'd love to hear from technical believers how they justify this.

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AlgoAlchemist

· 12-10 21:37

Honestly, Meta's electricity bill is incredibly high... But for Web3 to take off, infrastructure is essential. It's just a matter of who will foot the bill for this cost.

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