The Detroit Free Press: Michigan wants AI jobs and 100% clean energy. But can it do both?
At the same time Michigan's Democrats have required that power generation be from 100%clean renewable sources by 2040, they now want to add a demand of gigawatts of power form their latest shiny fetish - Data Centers.
The power demand from data centers are daunting:
DTE also plans to provide power for the Stargate campus, OpenAI announced. In an Oct. 30 earnings call, DTE officials said they secured an agreement to power a 1.4-gigawatt data center. For reference, DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Newport produces about 1.2 gigawatts of power, enough energy to power a city of a million people, according to the company. OpenAI said the power used for its Stargate campus will come from existing energy supply, and DTE said the data center will absorb electric costs, not local ratepayers.
Not likely. Especially as the Democrats don't want increase reliable baseline production most especially not with nuclear power.
That one data center will take all of Fermi 2's generation just by itself, forget adding another data center. They want even more. We're already susceptible to brown outs due to a lack of generation capability here, and they want to add data centers to add to the load without increasing generation capability.
Unicorns and rainbows aren't going to power the Michigan Democrat's data center dreams. Until Dems get serious about power generation, this demand fir shiny hip data centers need to be stopped as it is unplugged from reality.
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