Quixoticgeek on Nostr: I saw this article go past earlier, and didn't think much of it, yeah yeah, grid ...
I saw this article go past earlier, and didn't think much of it, yeah yeah, grid congestion, lots of ai datacentres, see that everywhere.
Then I read it, and a couple of numbers stuck out.
First off, 2025 peak electricity demand for the UK was 46GW. Which is a little higher than I thought, I usually say it's about 40GW for the UK. But that number isn't a major issue. The numbers that made me double take are these:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q90q9qnn2o1/n
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