A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
Don’t glaze China too hard. They also built >80% of the coal power built last year
Correct, but these are also built to be turned off as soon as their growing renewable grid can handle peak power in the most densely populated regions. They specifically use coal because that is abundant to China, and within it’s plan for independence as well, and grants them a lot of security again foreign influences.
They are trying really hard to bring fission power into this, but their Houlong and Linlong plants are just to cumbersome to build quickly, and they are working on a network of smaller fast neutron, and thorium reactors, which they can sustain easily without foreign supply chains.