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A few thoughts arising from this...

  • That's US news, there's a million billion things they do there that our utilities would not consider fair, and vice versa.
  • So "us" == US citizens in this instance; UK citizens access to power will be dictated by UK regulators
  • However it's really not surprising in when most generation is privately owned. It's all just market economics at the end of the day
  • There's nothing new under the sun. Google has been doing it for at least 2 decades: their very first privately owned data centre opened in Dalles, Oregon in 2006 was on the site of an old aluminum smelting plant, chosen for it's direct connection to a private power plant and fresh water supply.

 

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Don't worry the Chinese have done AI with a fraction, allegedly,  of the energy needed by the US systems so we can look forward to fewer emissions coming our way from China perhaps. 

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What is the problem with long term energy contracts?

We winge like hell about volatile prices, but are unwilling to enter into a long term deal, just incase prices come down.

 

Interesting that the news is from Harrisburg, PA, the home of Three Mile Island. I used to live near it, no one mentioned it at all.

 

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>>> That's US news

 

Yeah, appreciate that, but what happens in California or Germany energy markets may eventually happen here. I appreciate there are some local differences, but the trends e.g. increasing solar and wind / general shift from fossil to renewables / greater electricity consumption / increasing number of big energy-sucking datacentres etc etc etc are similar.

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