Silas 'Sales' Braga discusses long-term US electrical grid capacity constraints caused by rising data center load and fossil-fuel plant retirements.
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“And then in the long term, you have multiple gigawatts of space between projected demand. Even if we're wrong about the most bullish projections, there is still gigawatts of gap Between planned retirements on the supply generation side and, ah, what we have coming up the queue.”
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