Posted on 03/07/2024 4:57:33 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
The emergence of new technologies means demand is soaring for power across the country; in Georgia, "demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently," Evan Halper said for The Washington Post. Northern Virginia "needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all [its] new data centers," Halper said, while Texas faces a similar problem.
This demand is resulting in a "scramble to try to squeeze more juice out of an aging power grid." At the same time, companies are "pushing commercial customers to go to extraordinary lengths to lock down energy sources, such as building their own power plants," Halper said.
Much of this relates to the "rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure," Halper said. This infrastructure requires significantly more power than traditional data centers, with the aforementioned crypto farms also sucking up massive amounts of power.
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I live near US41 in Florida and the company Pike is putting in an additional set of power lines.
Immediately impose a 50 year moratorium on all immigration, and deport all non-citizens including green card and other long term visa holders.
Cloward-Piven
Yes. In the dark.
Time to go back to paper and filing cabinets.
Well, I certainly hope big democrat cities run out of juice. We’re waiting for you when you come out to the sticks looking for food and whatever else you think you can steal.😎
The new large user of electricity, Awful Inefficient
Yes.
The gov is hoping your AC is cut off in rolling blackouts.
The additional heat you feel is supposed to make you believe climate change is a catastrophe and you’ll beg the gov to take over everything economic to save us.
Same goes with crime - take away guns, crime goes up, increase the police state.
The place I live is controlled by incompetent Democrats.
When it rains or snows we lose electricity.
If Russia and China ever attacked they should wait until it snows in the US.
We will be hungry, cold, in the dark with no water and our electric vehicles won’t charge.
“the USA is committing high tech suicide.”
Yep.
Bowing to the W.E.F.
and deport all non-citizens including green card
and other long term visa holders.
******
Who is gonna do the grunt labor? These high end
aren’t gonna do it.
Put all of that cheap surplus electricity to work !
I don't think it's even that. I think government and foolish voters believe that they can have it all just by fantasizing and passing laws. Reminds me of Kipling's Road Song of the Bandar-Log.
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two --
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
Power plants can be built very quickly, it they are gas. As long as you have a pipeline nearby of course. I saw one built in four months, from pouring the pad to spin up test.
Not building new nuke plants...toxic energy incentives. closing pipelines... etc etc etc.
Those who know say we could be commissioning molten-salt thorium reactors one a month in five years. Much safer and cleaner than pressurized water, startup fuel is abundant, they create their own fuel for years thereafter....what's not to like?
“I live near US41 in Florida and the company Pike is putting in an additional set of power lines.”
Pike Electric is from Mt. Airy, NC. Home of actor Andy Griffith and the inspiration for the town of Mayberry.
Um. Yea . No. Dumbass.
Tech requires a prodigious energy supply but the demand can be met if we were to renounce the green agenda and commit to doing what the Nation needs. That includes freeing up of pipeline and exploration for fossil fuels, cutting red tape which causes the delay in building nuclear generation, and it includes serious curtailing of forcing people into electric autos, heat pumps, kitchen appliances, etc.
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