Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma.
As Stephen Green commented at Instapundit: We told you so. The lie of the Green New Deal has become apparent -- there isn't nearly enough capacity possible in renewable sources to abandon fossil fuels and nuclear power for existing demand, let alone the scaled-up demand that will come from a massive shift to EVs. California's situation is the most acute, thanks to their outright ban on fossil-fuel generation in the state, but it won't be long before states like Texas and Virginia face existential crises, too.
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