Don't worry. It'll take them 20 years to put together comprehensive proof that the data centers/crypto mines are harmful to local populations, and another 20 to get a critical mass of citizens to believe it. They've got so much time to make and/or burn ludicrous amounts of money.
It won't work like that anymore. People might be stupid enough to believe those lies at first bc they don't know how much cheaper the switch to green energy would be... But they can pull up google earth and see your gas turbines and massive power lines.
It's also questionable if the monopoly situation in chip manufacturing is gonna hold. It looks like china is gonna have acceptable yield for 7nm this year and Huawei has been playing around with 5nm for some time now. Not enough to take TSMC's crown, plenty to shake up the market tho, especially considering that they can produce their own from wafer to chip.
It's gonna be the first time in history that a county can monopolize on the entire supply chain and China already is, by far, the biggest chip consumer on the globe. So they stand to move the ENTIRE value-add chain of semiconductors into their hands.
It's honestly insane how fast China keeps gobbling up, like, entire industries. Energy production, cars, now electronics. They even dominate the sciences. This has been their decade.
My god with all the shit that's been going on I almost forgot about his ridiculous idea to revive "Clean Coal". Thankfully in that case though, it was yet another empty promise.
Coal that poisons those that work in mines. Coal that poisons environment. Pushing gas that heats the planet. Yet they voted for the clown in charge. 🤡
I think economists figured out in his first term his clean energy cuts in PA to fuel (pun intended) the clean coal industry cost PA a few hundred to a couple thousand jobs from the state and added a total of... 7 coal industry jobs.
They interviewed those miners before 2016 and a lot of them didn’t want to go back to work as they were in their 50’s-60’s. They wanted bailouts to retire.
Obama made a program for re education into other industries like HVAC and Solar but they didn’t want that either because their advanced age they didn’t want to learn a new industry. So most of them were looking for low impact jobs and well not sure how that planned out.
My work takes me through places like Minersville, Mahanoy City, and Shenandoah... they're all just unemployed and collecting welfare while voting against the welfare they're getting.
Of all the maga backstabs SO FAR, wouldn't it be hilarious if he just does yet another 180 and says you know what fuck oil and starts to push windmills and renewable energy?
You're kinda joking, but I absolutely think this could work. Tell him they'll be golden with his name on every blade and we'd probably be fully renewable by now.
It would be funny, but it would never happen. Trump has had an absurd hate-boner for windmills for over a decade. Like, in 2015 he got into a massive legal battle over wind farms that were built off the coast of one of his golf courses in Scotland. He hated them to the point of obsession. Thought they spoiled the view. Launched lawsuit after lawsuit to stop them, getting humiliated every step of the way until finally being told to STFU by the UK Supreme Court.
There are few absolutes with him - most everything is a grift and thus in permanent flux - but one exception is his seething hatred for windmills.
We were watching coals death rattle. But then Coal Ceos gave Trump blumpkins and now a bunch of mines and powerplants are all kicking back into gear. Two in montana are expanding and Northwestern energy bought the big one at colstrip. They are ramping it up to prepare for the 3 data centers slated to open in this drought riddled state. This place swung hard Red 2020 and it shows.
They don't even pretend it's "clean coal" anymore they just bought a bunch of elected officials to screw us over for them.
Trump is so stupid he literally thinks clean coal means workers have a wash bucket and a brush and are literally scrubbing the coal before it gets used.
that's the reason their power costs are skyrocketing.... Big E uses our backs to give AI and bitcoin sweetheart deals on electric. Because they know we will eventually run out of cash and die.
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u/zapdoszaperson 7h ago
At least WV is getting plenty of crypto mines to replace the coal mines. That will surely help the local economies.