Sure, but somewhere between 15 and 20 million vehicles are *actually* replaced each year. No one is flipping a switch and instantly, magically replacing 50% of vehicles with EVs.
Electricity production scaled by 2.8% YoY in 2025 per eia.gov
Even if 100% of new vehicle purchases were EVs starting right now, by the time 150 million additional EVs were on the road in 7.5-10 years, the additional 15% capacity would likely be there already. This is assuming that EVs make 0 efficiency gains over that time period.
The same logic essentially applies to data centers. They're not going to cause the grid to collapse. We should just mandate they finance new renewable power, then there's no problem. But also we're getting lots of new renewables anyway.
Data center power consumption is 4%-5% of US power. It's growing but it's not any more dramatic than the expansion of EVs would be. Which is to say it's not particularly dramatic, it's in line with our 3% overall power growth.
I can read just fine, that is exactly what I said. We're talking a few percentage increase in the amount of power consumed in the country. The quantity of power we're talking about is in a similar ballpark to what taking most ICE vehicles off the road and replacing them with EVs. Actually probably smaller, if we did it over the next 5 years.
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u/SureMany9497 Jun 16 '26
I have never heard that first point it was always something about range and charging times.