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estimator7292yesterday at 8:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is that relevant? The grid in every country is getting ridiculously stressed by datacenters.


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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 9:35 PM

What the grid looks like in different countries is very different. The Dutch power grid is already almost 50% renewables, which is an inconvenience for adding capacity because that's around where you have to start really dealing with storage in order to add more.

In most other places the percentage is significantly less than that and then you can easily add more of the cheap-but-intermittent stuff because a cloudy day only requires you to make up a 10% shortfall instead of a 50% one, which existing hydro or natural gas plants can handle without new storage when there are more of them to begin with.

nslsmyesterday at 10:01 PM

>The grid in every country is getting ridiculously stressed by datacenters.

In every country? Citation needed.