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Electricity Article
written by: John Power
Nominative determinism at work
I like how when they're writing about global north countries, they say it's an abundant supply of green energy, or renewable energy. But when writing about China it suddenly becomes "cheap energy", as if to imply that the electricity itself is somehow of lesser quality
Electricity (Asian(Bad))
Our pure green power. Their evil scheming electricity
China trying to simply run a country (of over a billion people):
The news? "They have developed an energy weapon"
"Our reports show that China produces over 10,000 Kilowatt hours of electricity a year. If they were to weaponise this and fire it at the United States, it would be more devastating than an atom bomb."
i saw a video glazing Hegang city yesterday because the housing there is cheap. Dude in the video's monthly electric bill for his apartment was around $7.50 converted which is around $15 PPP in relation to the US economy.
Is China actually building a billion datacenters like the US or is it media making up an opponent that doesn't exist in order to justify the US building a billion datacenters?
https://hexbear.net/comment/7189200 This report came out recently and they put the energy use of Chinese data centers at somewhere between a quarter and a third of the US's, but with much less strain on the national grid because of all the surplus capacity they've built up
Not sure, but one thing China is definitely actually building is electrical infrastructure, both clean generation and very high power and long distance transmission.
The Huawei logo looks like if you made someone sit down and redraw the NBC logo to be more "Asian"