I would have expected most of them to be in Portland.
“However, of the 2,630 direct data center employees, 2,205 of them are in Eastern Oregon and, in Morrow County, the hyperscale data centers directly employ more than 10% of the local workforce.”I do datacenter work. I’ve only worked or applied for work in the Portland area.
I would’ve guessed Hillsboro since they have a few big ones, but I guess the hyperscale ones are just that much bigger. I know at least Google and Meta have a big Oregon presence.
Yup. That’s where the datacenters are. Downtown too tho. They’ve converted some of those old buildings to datacenters. Pittock. Tata.
Residential power rates have gone up 60% since 2020. Meanwhile the state actually had net migration for a few of those years during the Portland COVID trough.
I wonder what could be driving this sudden rate explosion when residential use won’t have changed much? /s
Ok, that’s a long-ish interview, and it really does cut to your point.
I think this is the most relevant portion of the interview. I recommend reading the whole thing.We’re also seeing significant growth. But importantly, while we’re looking at these increased capital needs on our system, we’re also deploying strategies to keep customer costs as low as possible. So when we talk about infrastructure growth on our system, we have a philosophy now that growth has to pay for growth. And thanks to the work that the Citizens’ Utility Board and other advocates did two legislative sessions ago with the passage of the Power Act, we now have tools at our disposal to make sure that as we are building out infrastructure to support large energy users like data centers, we can allocate the cost of that growth to that user group.
For example, we have a filing right now at the PUC which would increase rates, if adopted, for data centers, by 20%. By shifting costs off of our small business and residential customers, residential customers could see a decrease of about 2%, if that particular proposal was adopted. As we look to the future where more of that growth may be associated with those large energy users, we would see more and more of those infrastructure costs being allocated to those large users.
Miller: How much is that happening now? Why not already say if data centers or other heavy industrial users are, by far, responsible for a bigger – I don’t know about the overall energy use – but in terms of the percentage change. Data centers, their demand is growing way faster than residential demand. So are you already taking that into account as you make these prices? Are you already saying, “hey data centers, we’re gonna give you a bigger piece of our overall cost increases, because you are demanding more and more every year?”
Sheeran: Well, because of the way that rates are set and regulated by law, we weren’t able to do that for data centers, as a specific class of customers, until the Power Act was passed a couple of years ago. And that’s what makes that legislation so important. It basically cleared the path for the Public Utility Commission to work with utilities and work with CUB to establish a different set of rate-making tools for data centers as a whole that could allow them to shoulder more of the growth that they are directly bringing to the system.
Shut them all down.
If we do that, how are you gonna dick around on the internet?
Where do you think this website is hosted? Is it magic somehow because its not reddit?
Sorry to tell ya bud, lemmy.today may be hosted in Oregon, but it does not run on fairy dust.I mean I pay a few bucks a month for compute resources I use for self-hosting, to a relative mom & pop provider who leases space in a small data center in-state that’s been around for many years. They’re not all the same.
*burn
Go burn someone else’s workplace.
And while you are at it, try getting your message across by holding a sign on a streetcorner, because that’s how its gonna work if you burn the datacenters.That’s fair. Which one do you work at, so I can make sure to avoid it?
