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I'm glad that a locally proposed DC was shot down in my area. It took the citizens
of that county Raising Cain to get it shut down. The local political "representatives"
were pushing hard to rush the project thru. DTE successfully rammed through their DC in Saline. The pols make soothing noises.
Michigan Public Service Commission approves DTE contract for Saline Township data center project
MPSC Chair Dan Scripps said. "If ultimately this is a bubble, if this is all overblown and the load doesn’t materialize, that again even in that worst case scenario, customers are still protected.”https://www.wxyz.com/news/data-centers/michigan-pu...Scripps brings up a good point. If utilities build the generating capacity to serve the DCs, and it's a bubble, most of the DCs are aborted, and the utility companies end up with surplus generating capacity, like automakers that now have surplus EV production capacity, who pays the cost for the underutilized power plants?
The scenario of residential areas being blacked out, to give the DCs priority for power, crossed my mind too.
Steve
