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		_hypx on July 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery f... Not to mention radical increases from demanding everyone switch to heat pumps plus demanding industry switch to electrified versions of everything too. It's seriously a complete fantasy to think the grid can happen all that with minimal upgrades.

redserk on July 23, 2023 [–]

Dominion Energy in Virginia has an even worse problem than EVs to worry about: datacenters

https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/RD216/PDF

If you scroll to page 66 of the PDF, it’s insane how much more demand is needed for datacenters. It completely dwarfs forecasted EV power usage.

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