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Are We Set for A Major Increase in Electricity Demand?

Every so often a new set of lobbyists rises up to tell us that the electric industry has to do something because the expected demand from X will overwhelm the utilities. Back in the early days of the personal computer, the electric industry sponsored a study that showed that PCs would just about eat electricity. Everyone got excited until somebody realized that the researcher had incorrectly calculated consumption per computer. Recently we had the crypto crisis. Now it’s data centers that will consume all our electricity. These estimates,…

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