You know how we had to hear for years that it would be impossible to switch to electric vehicles because the power grid wouldn’t be able to support all those chargers? Funny isn’t it
It’s bullishit either way, but a single large industrial load is comparatively easy to accommodate, especially when it’s not a giant inductive load. A large increase in the residential demand is going to be spread out over huge areas, requiring changes all over the place.
Data centers are unfortunately not going anywhere. I just wish someone would put all that waste heat to use, instead of just dumping it into the atmosphere. Seems like it would be pretty easy to make something like a combination data center/desalination plant.
Sounds like socialism for therms! Can’t have 'em mixing.