Posted on 04/06/2024 5:39:05 PM PDT by John W
Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.
In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of new electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently. Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent major upgrades.
Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma.
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“Dear Americans, thank you for voting us in so that we can destroy the energy grid, infrastructure, and food supply. Now kindly die.”
Which is an easy fix.
And New England is decommissioning the last two coal-fired electricity generating stations.
Oh Joy, Oh Rupture!
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Let the Yankees freeze.......... in the dark!
[[But they will leave all ecommerce, propaganda machine news outlets, and government portals]]
Yes, b3cause after all, in the minds of the left, we dweebs need gov to tell us how to think and behave, because without their unlimited wisdom, we are truly lost and wouldn’t know how to breathe even.
Modular and easily expandable? Yes. But small? No.
And for anyone who thinks the rapid development of AI and its data centers can be slowed down, consider that the DOD, military-industrial complex, and intel community will be big users of AI and AI will be important to national defense.
Imagine not knowing what Thorium is???
Quick, get more electric cars, and heat pumps!
...Right on November 5, 2024.
80 IQs have no clue
In case you were worried..re demented corrupt pervert leaders will e just fine.
In case you were worried..OUR demented corrupt pervert leaders will be just fine.
Yep...
About what I would expect from you. ESAD
There are models that fit a "standard" shipping container. Others may take several "container modules" to make up a full reactor. I am sure the market will sort it out.
Yep. The problem is that some of the data centers will consume as much electricity as a small city.
The real reason for the push to EV is with a command, they can regulate how often you charge your car.
Even if its charged from home.
Gas lines make the news.
Not being able to charge your car will be covered up.
Cryptocurrency mining farms are using a lot of electricity.
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I knew that..... but don’t understand how all that works. If you have a link with a good explanation for the layperson, it would be appreciated.
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