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I meant Europe is an example of how not to do regulation. The problem you just mentioned. If you get land easily electricity won't be available and vice versa.

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Then maybe you should move here. We have in most cases well functioning regulations. Of course there are counter examples where it has been bad but data centers is not one of them. It is easy to get permits to build one.

Why is it an example? Can you cite any case where "regulation" trumpled the construction of a properly designed datacenter?

Or what you meant was "those poor billionaires can't do as they please with common resources of us all, and without any accountability"?

As a quick anecdote, there is a DC in construction in Portugal with a projected capacity of 1.2GW, powered by renewables.

There's also a bunch of countries pretty much begging companies to come and build solar arrays. If you rocked up in Australia and said "I'm building a zero-emission data center we'll power from PV" we'd pretty much fall over ourselves to let you do it. Plus you know, we have just a bonkers amount of land.

There is already a Tesla grid levelling battery in South Australia. If what you're really worried about is regulations making putting in the renewable energu expensive, then boy have I got a geopolitically stable, tectonically stable, first-world country where you can do it.

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