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I suspect our laws say that they just have to be given access to the grid at the same terms as any other company. And we're having to transition to green energ

I suspect our laws say that they just have to be given access to the grid at the same terms as any other company. And we're having to transition to green energy, and having great difficulty doing so, as you know. So a new thing that adds 10% extra national electricity usage isn't exactly welcome right now, imo.

lucb1e 5y ago
> that adds 10% extra national electricity usage I read elsewhere that we're talking about 160MW, that's 1.4 GWh -- if it would run at peak power all year long. The netherlands uses about a thousand TWh of energy in a year. (Electricity or other energy doesn't really matter because it's all going to have to come from renewables in the end anyhow.) That's not 10%, not 1%, not 0.1%, not 0.01%, not 0.001% but 0.0001%. Don't want to defend facebook but let's keep at least keep the order of magnitude correct