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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have any of you driven through eastern Loudoun lately?

It is a dystopian landscape of data centers everywhere. Data centers do not require a lot of employees. What they do require is huge, huge amounts of energy.

The data centers drive the AI industry and the high tech industry. But they use a lot of energy. Count on your electric bills going through the roof until they figure out alternative energy sources. Within the industry, some are considering nuclear energy to fill the need.[/quote]

And since batteries are not an energy source, only an energy storage device, that $700 million is best spent elsewhere. [/quote]

The batteries stores solar and wind generated energy. 93% of the new generated electricity was solar last year and it is looking like it will be more this year. Solar with batteries by itself can easily supply all the increase electricity demand(estimated at 3.5% for the next 10 years). This does not even include wind.

No one is building coal or nuclear power plants. The gas plants are one of the most expensive sources of power and are alway the first taken off line.

Building a gas power plant requires pipelines, turbines, transformers, switchgear, and pipe. All of which have spiked in cost including the fuel- natural gas. There are severe and long term bottlenecks on turbines.

The option is to use solar, wind and batteries and actually easily meet demand at reduce rate or do what you want and pay through the nose. It would be nice to actually be able to manufacture these things in the US but I guess maga is against manufacturing things in the US.

Another point is the Chinese are getting spin off technological break through similar to what we got with a space program. The military applications for the battery technology, electric motors, lidar, lithium processing, etc will be needed to stay relevant. [/quote]

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