The flip side of the daily parade of "new" clean, renewable energy projects paraded out in the MSM as solutions to the Techno society's insatiable lust for MOAR POWER is an equal or greater number of projects planned or being built already that will consume all of this new clean juice.  Jevon's paradox at work, of course, and you have to keep running harder and faster every day just to stay even.

No surprise Virginia is at the center of this battle for more electrons, since it's home to a whole alphabet soup of 3 letter agencies busy keeping track of where every last person is and what they are doing every last minute of every day.  However, that's not enough and Google, Apple, Microsoft and media companies and banks all need their Juice Hogs all over the country also.

I think the simple, obvious answer to this is that anybody who wants a data center has to build a power plant to supply it with juice.  Why should taxpayers and residential customers have to share the cost and energy output with these privately held companies?  Bad enough we have to pay for Da Goobermint spooks to spy on us.

Anyhow, I felt this consumption are deserved its own thread, since I have made separate threads for all the new supply side we are supposed to be getting.

https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/01/states-rethink-data-centers-as-electricity-hogs-strain-the-grid/

States rethink data centers as 'electricity hogs' strain the grid

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