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by XorNot 1423 days ago
If your plan is to dig tunnels for energy grids, then it's sensible because you're going to start at the energy producers. We build power plants in the gigawatt range [1] regularly - they're only suborning 12% of that output.

The biggest challenge is going to be extending cabling, though presumably the "tunneling cable" just becomes the transmission line.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_statio...