> It's almost like grid inertia is a different problem from matching changes in demand, and nuclear really sucks at the latter...

For the recent big outage in France, neither of those was the problem. Some big transformers overloaded and there wasn't enough redundancy.

> Now everyone has all their eggs in the Amazon/Microsoft/Google basket, and instead of the (ahem, regulated) telco or electric company going out...the cloud provider does, and unlike before where you could still work locally - now you can't do anything.

> But hey, it was cheaper, right?

> Oops...

I'm not sure what you mean by "oops". Those datacenters do have downtime but companies seem to be happy sticking with them anyway. It seems like it still saves money.