For decades now we have been missing the point about the accelerating and overlapping energy and climate crises and how to address them. The ultimate goal should not be to make our electrical grid as green as possible, it should be to eliminate it entirely.
As grid operators prepare for another summer of record heat and peak demand, new reports show Big Tech and other industries are putting a massive strain on our energy infrastructure that no one seems to have planned for.
The vast majority of the US is connected to the grid, whose operation (about two-thirds) is largely split between seven system or transmission operators. Numerous power plants and other energy sources operated by governments, corporations or electric cooperatives make up the membership of these grid-maintaining super-entities, which have recently struggled to keep up with demand and keep the lights on.
When a freezing winter storm in 2021 led to power outages of Te…
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