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jollyllama on Sept 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in ...

The real reason is that fossil fuel plants have been offlined and decommissioned, and the reason this occurred is because they were made unprofitable by punitive regulation far more so than market forces.

ac29 on Sept 4, 2025 [–]

> fossil fuel plants have been offlined and decommissioned

Coal is down, but there has never been more natural gas generation in the US: https://www.epa.gov/power-sector/power-sector-evolution

jollyllama on Sept 4, 2025 | [–]

Yes, perhaps I should have said coal.

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