Almost anything infrastructure related, however it exists is probably the most efficient cost/maintenance ratio for that area. That is basically the only requirement for the engineers in charge of designing that kind of shit.
Unless you're the Texas power grid. Then it's literally the cheapest possible way to still be able to bill people for it.
This. You start making these money making machines chip in their fair share to the local infrastructures they leech off of, and all that political shit will stop real fast.
I was thinking the other week about how it's getting to a point that I would consider a membership fee to access something like lemmy but guaranteed no AI or bots or bullshit advertising.
I know it isn't possible, but if it was, I'd pay a small fee to have it.
"The school" isn't paying for shit. That will all fall into the tuition of the current student body.