Cost Of Renewables -- Bankrupting Europe -- LDCs -- September 21, 2024

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Updates

September 22, 2024: Bjorn Lomborg -- decades in the making -- the chickens come home to roost --

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Italy: sky-high power costs "despite" clean energy push. I thought clean energy was to provide free electricity. LOL. Link here.

Nuclear: Three Mile Island -- now we need it! For AI. For LDCs. For Microsoft. Link here.

Nuclear. Three Mile Island -- now we need it! For AI. For LDCs. For Microsoft. Link here. WSJ.

US construction costs for solar, wind, natural gas. Link here.

Construction costs for utility plants. Statista. Link here. "Overnight costs." Which means "all-in" costs are much, much greater. 

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AI -- LDCs  -- Energy

More on Microsoft - AI - Pennsylvania -- LDCs -- Nuclear -- Three Mile Island

Link here.

Tech giants, including Microsoft, are increasingly exploring nuclear energy as a power source for energy-hungry AI data centers.

Job postings uploaded last year suggested that Microsoft, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence through its partnership with OpenAI, was exploring using nuclear energy to power its data centers.

Bobby Hollis, Microsoft's vice president of energy, told Bloomberg that the Three Mile Island reactor would help Microsoft meet its target of being carbon-negative by 2030 and that energy from the site would be used for data-center expansion in Pennsylvania and nearby states. The AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT require huge amounts of energy to train and run, and those power needs have supercharged a wave of spending on data centers across the US.

NOTE: 800,000 square feet is the threshold to watch ...

USA Data Centers: link here.

Western Europe Data Centers: link here.

EU/UK: ten largest data centers. What catches your eye?

• Portugal: has the largest, 800,000 sq feet; one of the world's largest
• Wales: 750,000 sq feet
• Germany: 560 sq feet
• Ireland: 550 sq feet, Microsoft;
• Sweden: 290 sq feet, Facebook;
• Slough, UK: 226
• Finland: 161
• Denmark: Google
• Netherlands: 100; AMS-1, Iron Mountain

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