Re:AI is exhausting the power grid
by paulmd on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:17PM
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Yeah. The power grid is on the verge of falling over on an overly warm summer day, that’s not a useful metric. Our infrastructure is trash and utilities have systematically underinvested despite constant increases for delivery fees and capacity charges etc etc, and utilities have systematically lobbied against net-metering and other measures to generate power at the last-mile to mitigate this.
An average summer heatwave here sees 1-3 substations blowing up around here.
An average summer heatwave here sees 1-3 substations blowing up around here.