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[โ€“] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not a question of ideas, it's a question of money. Building things to use excess power costs a lot of money.

In some markets, the power price actually goes negative and consumers can be paid to use energy.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html

I think there's plenty of money out there to use excess power, someone just has to connect the dots...