Namely, It's very easy to 'design to load' where you don't need to worry about the next shipment of Coal, or an extended weather event causing excessive cloud cover and depleting your reserves.

Heck, even as far as compared to LPG, you don't have to worry as much about disruptions or possible cost shifts around LPG supply.

Yes, I'm possibly tongue-in-cheek handwaving specific types of 'weather events' here and potential impacts, i.e. Tsunamis... OTOH it's a lot easier in current gen designs to make something that would have minimal risk for something, say, in the middle of nowhere Texas.

> Google’s new Minnesota data center comes with the world’s largest battery—and won’t raise electric bills

> The tech giant says it will fund enough new wind, solar, and long-duration storage to cover the project’s power demand and avoid shifting costs to ratepayers.

1. https://energynow.com/2026/03/us-natgas-prices-at-waha-hub-i...

2. https://www.rbccm.com/en/insights/2026/05/natural-gas-powers...

The problem is that they need full power 24/365.