Comment Re:Yes, becuase ... (Score 1) 69
It's a revelation to some people when a solar panel can't keep the lights on after sunset. Or when the battery never gets charged during the day due to heavy overcast, or the 8000 tons of batteries needed to keep a 50 MW data center running through a 15 hour winter night. Yes I did the math.
It might also be a revelation to you that the owners of the data centers have no intention of turning them off at night. Since hydropower is tapped out, coal is classified as unclean, gas turbines are back-ordered if the gas supply is even available, solar and wind are intermittent at best and batteries boost the real cost of that power if you can find the land to install it, the list of options gets thin. Geothermal only works in a few places, and that leaves fission and fusion. Only one of those is known to work.
Bingo.
It's all well and good to mutter the shibboleths when it doesn't matter