Comment by bryanlarsen
8 hours ago
Removing regulations from nuclear won't help because it takes so long to build a nuclear plant. Yes it would help in the long term, but in the short term price goes up.
However it should be faster to build a solar plant, a battery bank and a power line between them and the new data center than it takes to build a new data center. It isn't because of silliness, and that's what to blame for the power price increases IMO.
Removing regulations 20 years ago when people were screaming that we need to would have helped. 20 years ago nuclear was still the best answer, but since it wasn't allowed we didn't build it (instead mostly coal and gas). Power companies are good at planning, and AI/data centers are not using that much more power than predicted 5 years ago - but the regulations have to allow for plans.
Removing regulations today will have an effect in 10-20 years. I cannot give you a quick answer to the problem.