https://archive.is/rS3ze https://archive.is/rS3ze how is this stressing a grid that has to shed huge amounts of load to maintain availability off peak? instead

https://archive.is/rS3ze https://archive.is/rS3ze how is this stressing a grid that has to shed huge amounts of load to maintain availability off peak? instead of shedding the load, just price it effectively and the demand will even out and be a more efficient use of the fuel or generating station. the problem with our energy infra is a lack of consistent demand, and both AI and proof of work create the demand and a consumer of last resort that would make generation way more efficient. afaik, the main compute load is done in training, not in the queries. this article sounds like astroturfing a pretext for regulation under the auspices of "climate." also, the diminishing value of cash is accelerating so taking todays dollars and putting them into tomorrow's energy is probably the most fundamentally sound economic use of capital today. power generators were loaded with debt and used as public sector slush funds (in canada where they were nominally publicly owned) and now the companies are not very productive because they have to pass on the debt service cost to consumers, and prevent anyone from entering the market to offer competitive service that would interfere with that debt service. if you build new energy infra, you need to protect it from managers piling it with debt to loot it, but if you solve that real problem, demand is not a "problem," it's the most valuable thing in the universe.