[paraboli]

A tragedy. Killing this and Revolution Wind are some of the most consequential acts of the Trump administration. We are now unable to do large scale grid-connected energy projects and won't be able to take advantage of the incredible advances in efficiency renewables provide. With data centers causing the first increase in per-capita energy usage in decades there's a good chance we have an actual power crisis and the administration's other priorities like reshoring manufacturing become impossible.

[alexose]

Yep. It has massive ripple effects for manufacturing, especially as more industry transitions away from fossils for heat generation. Energy accounts for around 40% of the opex for steel manufacturing, for instance. Zero chance we build more steel mills if the cost of electricity continues to skyrocket.

The Chinese have the right approach: Bringing the cost-per-watt down using massive deployments of renewables and ultra high voltage transmission. We were already in the backseat, and now we're not even in the same car.

[ZeroGravitas]

In the UK, they didn't move to a zonal pricing system, which is generally considered a good move, because the uncertainty of even a good change to the system would spoon investors and affect interest rates and so lower the amount of renewables built and increase energy costs.

In the US they are actively causing chaos with much worse impacts likely.

[ManuelKiessling]

That must be a major obstacle for AI companies then, on their way to massive build-out of data centers?

At the same time, these AI companies currently have insanely deep pockets and mindshare, and I assume they are lobbying hard for cheap energy?

[rootusrootus]

Can't help but notice the reliable pattern of right-wing naming conventions. German Democratic Republic, not at all democratic. Democratic People's Republic of Korea, again not even remotely democratic. Make America Great Again, not in fact trying to make America great. I get it, slogans work and are more important than the reality behind them. But it is depressing nonetheless, to imagine all the nice things and prosperity we could create if we actually did try.

[soramimo]

Truth social (or similarly Pravda)

[1123581321]

Is totalitarian communism (first two examples) considered right-wing now?

[squarefoot]

Bad naming from OP, but the meaning holds: totalitarianism has no political color, when your liberties are ignored the fact that it comes from left or right becomes irrelevant. Abusive governments just love playing with words to make their actions sound gentler.

[rootusrootus]

You can definitely quibble that totalitarianism is not left- or right-wing by the conventions we are most familiar with, which makes the comparison a little bit of a stretch. But it is certainly closer to present-day right wing authoritarianism that we are experiencing a surge of across the world than it is to left-wing. To be sure, left-wing authoritarianism absolutely is a thing, it's just that the left wing largely doesn't exist any more and certainly doesn't have enough power to implement any authoritarian policies.