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Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by huijzer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:31AM (#41298992)
That doesn’t necessarily lead to a failure. In Texas a nuclear plant went down. About 1.2 (or 4 times that) GW (https://www.keranews.org/news/2023-06-22/with-temperatures-s...).

The grid stayed online. Likely thanks to grid batteries, see aforementioned link.

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Re:The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud by deanishe on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:13PM (#41303011)
Four units with a combined capacity of 1.2GW.

That's a far cry from 10GW.

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