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Comment by dmoy

2 years ago

> If so, what's the barrier to building this infrastructure?

Tons of money, and time?

Texas grid is over 100GW, they're saying they have a 7% increase in demand? So figure like 5-10GW?

They just spent $10 billion on 10GW of new power plants, and those take 5-10 years to come online. (And the estimate is it'll overrun to $18 billion)

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