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>any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted Doesn't seem too hard to force the datacenter to p
by gruez 9mo ago
>any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted
Doesn't seem too hard to force the datacenter to put up a bond for it, and then if the requirements/timelines aren't met the bond's seized.
- blibble 9mo agoit's exceptionally hard because energy is fungible try writing the contract, say, requiring 500MW of new gas generation to be built locally to power the DC, which is grid connected they'll then secretly write a contract to sell 500MW of gas generation on the open market, conditional on approval at some price they'll find a buyer, at which point 500MW increase in grid capacity has been cancelled out despite them actually building the plant and all it cost them was the difference in the contract price
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- scrubs 9mo agoHmm not quite following: 500MW was created at connected to grid as required although delegated to 3rd party. And the DC uses that power. So what's the problem?
- blibble 9mo ago500MW doesn't get built on the other side of the country when needed as the power has been sold so there's a lag, but at this kind of scale you don't really care