> how about making the new datacenters fund nuclear, solar, and grid battery?
good luck with that
any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted
good luck with that
any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted
See you in 15 years I guess.
Many site are already building their own capacity, but doing it (unfortunately) with gas turbines.
and you've accomplished nothing
and if you make them hold a certain position they'll simply sell in another subsidiary, or use derivatives
the only way to deal with this type of parasitism is blanket refusal
Let them buy energy, but why aren’t utilities’ power rates more strictly regulated?
Residential rates should be locked in with inflation, allow business rates to increase.
The only way to remove additional grid demand (and therefore cost) is to simultaneously flood the supply. The DCs should absolutely pay for that.
These are monopoly businesses where the government has full control over the policy of their operation.
I would generally make the argument that data centers aren’t any different than manufacturing or retail businesses. Their demand should be considered equal in terms of priority - the government shouldn’t be artificially choosing industry preferences unless it has very good reason.
Either you’re a business and you pay the business price or you’re an individual and you pay the individual price.
Nuclear has extremely onerous regulatory requirements.
Doesn't seem too hard to force the datacenter to put up a bond for it, and then if the requirements/timelines aren't met the bond's seized.
try writing the contract, say, requiring 500MW of new gas generation to be built locally to power the DC, which is grid connected
they'll then secretly write a contract to sell 500MW of gas generation on the open market, conditional on approval
at some price they'll find a buyer, at which point 500MW increase in grid capacity has been cancelled out despite them actually building the plant
and all it cost them was the difference in the contract price
so there's a lag, but at this kind of scale you don't really care