oddhan

This is a great example of how we quickly pin blame on the new bogeyman ("Big Rich Tech Corporations!") instead of focusing on the root problem. Two years ago, the same grid monitor wrote: "One of the key challenges facing the PJM markets is the potentially high level of expected thermal resource retirements between now and 2030 with no clear source of replacement capacity." What created that situation? Policy choices that pretended we could eliminate baseload power and still meet pie-in-the-sky environmental targets without hurting reliability or affordability. There were plenty of warnings, but they were ignored. Some even dismissed those concerns because abstract things like "the fate of the planet" were too important. But now that the bill has quite literally come due, the blame is simply recast. You see, it's now the fault of those who are trying to make a historic economic opportunity a reality. Major opportunities don't happen without electricity. There are no high growth, low energy countries. The fact that years of policies pushed the grid to a point where there was limited room for economic growth should be a giant flashing referendum on those policies. Blaming data centers is a great way to get headlines and make people think we could have been okay but for those big bad tech bros. But that doesn't get at the root of the problem, and is effectively a diversion from a series of decisions that set the stage. And isn't it convenient that in many cases, it's the same decisionmakers who are now the loudest in pinning the blame on data centers?

The scandal hiding in plain sight is the collapse of American education. And no 2028 candidates -- aside from Rahm Emanuel -- are talking about it.

Politicians like Bernie and AOC who want to block data centers are pro-China, not pro-America. If there are legitimate concerns regarding development, propose a reasonable solution to address them. But shutting down tech progress only helps America lose...

The Republican Party is objectively the pro-crime party

"Datacenters Are Making People sick" Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons