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> In Texas, a dramatic increase in data centers for crypto mining is touching off a debate over whether they are a costly drain on an overtaxed grid. An analysis by the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie found that the energy needed by crypto operations aiming to link to the grid would equal a quarter of the electricity used in the state at peak demand. Unlike data centers operated by big tech companies such as Google an…
By law it should be compulsory to install enough renewable power to one’s requirement and grid should only be used as load balancing body.
Also, everybody should be required to grow their own food. Food insecurity solved!
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629271
By law it should be compulsory to install enough renewable power to one’s requirement and grid should only be used as load balancing body.
With this fantastic suggestion, I am proud to bestow you the honorary title of Certified Armchair Expert. To accept, you need only to recite the creed of the order: "It's all so simple!"
> In Texas, a dramatic increase in data centers for crypto mining is touching off a debate over whether they are a costly drain on an overtaxed grid. An analysis by the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie found that the energy needed by crypto operations aiming to link to the grid would equal a quarter of the electricity used in the state at peak demand. Unlike data centers operated by big tech companies such as Google an…
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You could outsource it to specialised power generation companies. Like you do in today's world.
I'm confused why that would result in more suburbia. Can you explain?
Roof space on large apartments isn’t enough to accommodate solar panels providing sufficient energy for every resident.
By law it should be compulsory to install enough renewable power to one’s requirement and grid should only be used as load balancing body.
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Also, everybody should be required to grow their own food. Food insecurity solved!
Or invest in food producing company, better explicit than implicit
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With this fantastic suggestion, I am proud to bestow you the honorary title of Certified Armchair Expert. To accept, you need only to recite the creed of the order: "It's all so simple!"
Think hard and write better solution.
The solution is to charge enough for power that the grid can be maintained to deliver it. The public have been giving themselves a pass on this since the 1960s with some fanciful idea that noting will ever break or fail and we will someday reduce our energy consumption -- something which has yet to occur in the entirety of human history. Energy is way too cheap; modern habits are the result of decades of market dumping. The bill is due; it must be paid.