[thehappypm]

Electricity is a little less fungible than folks make it out to be.

Iceland, for example, has abundant energy from various sources such as geothermal. However, that energy is not easy to send across the ocean to consumers. So, Iceland instead smelts a lot of aluminum, which takes a lot of energy, and is far easier to export cost-effectively.

So a kWh produced in Iceland is not exactly the same as a kWh produced in Germany; it's not truly fungible.

In that vein, datacenters are often placed in such areas. One at Microsoft for example is in Wyoming, near a hydro dam that is far from any dense population.