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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude by Vaushite on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:40PM (#50216871)
Germany spent most of the last two decades shutting down nuclear power plants while blocking renewables because the politicians were sponsored by coal and gas companies.
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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude by Kamq on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:26PM (#50223803)
That's part of sustained demand. The current spike seems to mostly be due to developments in Iran/the Straight of Hormuz.

This is, however, one of the reasons Germany is hit so hard by the current spike, I'll give you that.

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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude by philipallstar on Sunday October 25, 2026 @03:08PM (#50234989)
It's also because they were addicted to Russian gas, and had to spend a fortune to wean themselves off it once the war was raging - though not before giving Russia a lot of gas money for the war - and converting its power plants to use LNG, which it ships in from the USA. That is a mad situation even before Iran.
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