cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74728400

Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

  • dgdft@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Are you aware of the interconnection queue bottleneck?

    The issue feeding this is not companies being unwilling to pay slightly more money for renewables. They’re throwing wads of cash around hand-over-fist; if that got results, they’d do it without hesitation.

    The bigger factor is that the federal government is making it take >3-5 years to process the permitting to wire up new renewable sources to the grid.