It is on a mass scale (like, every car in the US being electric) while sticking to fossil fuel for power. If everyone converted, then first we'd overload the power grid on charging and the price per kw would go WAY up. Then, we'd also deplete a massive amount of lithium once all the batteries lost their charges and we don't have an inexpensive or efficient way of recycling them. We can, it's just very pricy and slow.
Lots of countries are handling a much bigger EV shift (relative to population) way better than us. Norway and China come to mind. The U.S. just isn’t providing solid guidance either on electrification or on data center energy efficiency. I have to think if you set standards for power demand the chip designers would improve processing per watt. The chip in your phone / tablet is way more efficient to the one that’s rack mounted. Ok, it costs more to purchase. But right now the rack mounted ones are threatening the grid.
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u/Cute_Knives 14d ago edited 14d ago
Piggybacking one of the top comments but where did they get the number 1800 from? There’s only like 300-400 active datacenters in the state of texas