George Pearkes: Or more wind, or solar + storage, I mean it’s all basically solved at this point.

My extremely unpopular opinion is that data centers aren’t the problem, an industry that saw zero load growth for two decades and forgot how to address it is the problem. High growth rates and local grid stress a systemic problem do not make.

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Also literally just build more nuclear plants it is a solved problem

Or more wind, or solar + storage, I mean it’s all basically solved at this point.

And it will only get more solved as battery tech/cost improves!

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