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miiiiiikeyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I’m only talking about my local area. I’m not defending the Colossus sites. I don’t live near them.


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micro2588yesterday at 11:00 PM

It is much more than the Colossus sites, I would look at the capacity additions in the regional grids you are apart of and what is being funded to meet these increases in demand from data centers. The majority of it is natural gas generation and a sizeable but minority amount of battery storage. Just outbidding people for a relatively fixed amount of clean nuclear ignores the second order effects of adding large loads like these. What happens in your area does have larger impacts.

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