Love the idea of onsite power generation for the data centers. Roof top solar with battery storage, small modular reactors, or better yet fusion generators! Unfortunately regulations will make this unlikely in the near term. Great article!
I should clarify that by saying that regulators have a responsibility to prevent this from being an issue, I do mean that energy markets as a whole should be deregulated. In other words, I am arguing in favor of market-wide energy deregulation with a focus on data centers by highlighting an example in which energy demand growth is exceeding what can be matched by growth in the energy supply.
This article sheds a light on the impact of data centers and should be shared across our country.
Love the idea of onsite power generation for the data centers. Roof top solar with battery storage, small modular reactors, or better yet fusion generators! Unfortunately regulations will make this unlikely in the near term. Great article!
This is a pretty good piece.
But you still inserted the “Regulators seem to have a responsibility to prevent this from becoming a bigger issue.”
Why data centers uniquely or above any other commercial ventures?
Other than in Northern VA and perhaps Chicago, your piece seems to be powerful argument why they should not be treated specially.
I am very much with you on being neither an apologist nor an alarmist. But this one presumption seems to lean alarmist.
Thank you for the kind words.
I should clarify that by saying that regulators have a responsibility to prevent this from being an issue, I do mean that energy markets as a whole should be deregulated. In other words, I am arguing in favor of market-wide energy deregulation with a focus on data centers by highlighting an example in which energy demand growth is exceeding what can be matched by growth in the energy supply.
FWIW!that you lean this way kinda comes across in the piece, but that that is your stance or the conclusion one should draw from the piece did not.
At least to me, anyway.