Subject: after all, Proles are expendable
DTE, the metro Detroit regulated electric utility, is trying to push through a data center in Saline Township, a township too small to have the legal budget to challenge DTE's plans in court, without any public hearings on the matter. I have been wondering, if there was a shortage of power available, would DTE cut off the data center, hurting it's profits, or would it leave it's ratepayers shivering in the dark, to keep it's data center humming?

US Faces Winter Blackout Risks from Data Centers’ Power Needs

Power consumption has grown 20 gigawatts from the previous winter, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Tuesday in its winter assessment. A gigawatt is the typical size of a nuclear power reactor. Supply hasn’t kept up.

As as result, a repeat of severe winter storms in North America that unleash a polar vortex, of which there have been several in recent years, could trigger energy shortfalls across the US from the Northwest to Texas to the Carolinas. All regions have adequate resources in normal conditions.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

Steve