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		jollyllama 5 months ago \| 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 5 months ago [–]

> 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 5 months ago | [–]

Yes, perhaps I should have said coal.

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