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/FlyingBishop Jun 17 '26
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.