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field notes: the data centre learns to flinch
The demos are real and the peer review is real. What's unproven is whether a utility planner will write a 500 MW flexible load into a resource-adequacy filing and sleep at night. Watch the tariffs, not the GPUs.
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Brussels wants to triple data centre capacity and asked you to switch off the dishwasher — on the same afternoon
Brussels filed two plans on the same afternoon that quietly cancel each other out: triple the data centres, and please switch off the dishwasher. It's a demand-management answer to a supply problem, dressed as industrial strategy.
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