Are you looking at a textbook from the 1990s or something? I'm sure that was true at some point, but it hasn't been true for a long time.

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toast0 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems likely to happen again. Many US utility coal fired power plants are scheduled for retirement and will not be replaced with new coal facilities. [1]

China is building lots of new coal generation, but also lots of new solar so coal use will be reduced during daylight (not the way a coal plant wants to run, but they'll adapt)

Give it a few more years and data centers with onsite coal will look like a genius cost cutting idea. Never mind all the pollution.

[1] https://ieefa.org/resources/nowhere-go-down-us-coal-capacity...

	▲	tialaramex an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Give it a few more years and data centers with onsite coal will look like a genius cost cutting idea. Never mind all the pollution. The numbers keep getting worse. Building "onsite coal" is more expensive than solar and storage, but now it needs more expensive fuel and you need to dispose of the toxic coal ash which won't be free either.
	▲	abenga 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The hope is in a few more years, we'll not have a cult hell bent on accelerating the apocalypse in charge of the largest economy in the world, or are you guys planning something different?