This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won

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0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

a 3,500-megawatt power plant fueled by natural gas.

Wtf? No electricity there? No reactors?
Oh, right, gotta feed te Drill Baby Drill crowd.

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- meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The natural gas power plant would be producing the electricity that would go beyond the regular demand. And no, there aren’t any reactors there. There’s only about 50 nuclear plants in the country and Danville, VA didn’t get one.
  
  Natural gas makes the plurality of electricity produced in the US, and to get there, it murdered coal, not nuclear or renewables, so bad as it is, it does represent an improvement in the American energy mix.
  
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