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okay so i found out something about california’s power grid and now you have to know about it too 😭

basically after the 2020 blackouts the state kept some old backup power plants running as like... a security blanket for the grid

that security blanket expires december 31st of this year. and there’s no clear plan yet for what replaces it.

meanwhile everyone is getting electric cars, ai is using a wild amount of power, and we’re all using way more electricity than ever before

so. remove the backup. add more demand. hope next summer isn’t too hot. that’s kind of the plan rn

in 2022 california literally texted 27 million people asking them to turn off their AC or risk a statewide blackout. and that was WITH the backup plants still running.

next summer they won’t be there 🙂
https://autl.assembly.ca.gov/media/1545
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