• kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Big customers lock in deals for a fixed price of Y for X years.

      Smaller customers can also get similar deals but retail customers (normal people) rarely can lock prices for more than 1 year. Most pay spot prices.

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      1 month ago

      Also, isn’t a steady state power consumption of a data centre easier to manage than homes flipping toasters on and off? I suppose that the inefficiency drives up the costs for home usage