Lack of new US power capacity could double blackouts by 2030, says Energy Department

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3. This assessment doesn't ask whether we actually need to build the huge data centers to support AI, Crypto, and other

large scale data handling. It assumes we are going to build many of them.

Rather like defense spending increases in an age when conventional, large standing weapons systems have been made considerably irrelevant by advances in drone technology, and cyber warfare.