[icwtyjj]

What about a making it prerequisite? Demonstrate you have built the nuclear/solar/whatever capacity to cover your own energy before you're allowed to build a datacenter?

[Manuel_D]

Solar doesn't work well with 24/7 demand requirements, provisioning enough storage to fully even out intermittency drastically raises costs (most battery storage systems are for only 2-4 hours).

Nuclear has extremely onerous regulatory requirements.

[dangus]

I think this is the wrong way to go.

Let them buy energy, but why aren’t utilities’ power rates more strictly regulated?

Residential rates should be locked in with inflation, allow business rates to increase.

[oliwarner]

But you've just killed domestic manufacturing and any retail balancing on fine margins.

The only way to remove additional grid demand (and therefore cost) is to simultaneously flood the supply. The DCs should absolutely pay for that.

[_aavaa_]

> nuclear

See you in 15 years I guess.

Many site are already building their own capacity, but doing it (unfortunately) with gas turbines.

[blibble]

if it's connected to the grid and you make them buy capacity, they will write a contract to sell the same amount of capacity the moment it's approved

and you've accomplished nothing

and if you make them hold a certain position they'll simply sell in another subsidiary, or use derivatives

the only way to deal with this type of parasitism is blanket refusal