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askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Hexbear ELI5: How can the US electrical grid possibly support ever-increasing compute, rising energy use as well as always on data centers?

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Hexbear ELI5: How can the US electrical grid possibly support ever-increasing compute, rising energy use as well as always on data centers?

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askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Anyone know? Feel like I should get educated on this so I don’t look silly when I talk about it. I guess we can support it much more easily than I thought.

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That’s the neat part. It can’t!

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