After the 2024 storms caused week-long blackouts across Northern Tasmania, the obvious response would have been to invest heavily into renovating and storm-proofing the local power grid. Instead, we got government ads about how preparing for blackouts is an important personal responsibility.
Mike CaulfieldI think one of the sad things about the current data center story cycle is the electric companies have effectively used "data center demand" to obscure that our main grid/supply/safety problems come from them letting the grid decay over the last two decades in unconscionable ways.