Oh for sure, I've been advocating AI have to cover their own power as if it weren't subsidized by the government. We could just turn it off and that would be cool with me. I want it to be well known that this was my stance long before the water issues.
They "foot the bill" capische? The cost goes to them. They pay money equivalent to the true cost of the goods they consume, above the rate at which a regular citizen pays for a good produced under a system of government subsidy and/or control.
It's actually pretty high on the list of worst opions, Mexico City has an elevation over 2,000 meters, surrounded by mountains over 3,000 meters tall above sea level. Access to the sun doesn't make this any more or less of a monumental task, it's assumed if they had that kind of energy infrastructure then they would already be using it.