[bluGill]

That doom take has a few roots in truth, but it is mostly false. Our grid for the most part is very good and improving. A lot of the gloom is it is good for today, but here is why we are trying to expand it anyway - that is the gloom itself is helpful to get the needed changes made.

There is a lot of renewable energy in the US, and more is built all the time.

[2ndorderthought]

It's really not "doom" it's reality. Highly recommend googling the state of the us grid. It's under funded otherwise data centers would not be running on gas. Similarly one of the biggest anticipated bottlenecks for new data centers is power right now.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/11/data-centers-at-risk-th...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/opinion/elect...

Although renewables are on the rise in use, huge projects have recently been cancelled in favor for gas. Meanwhile the us is going around blowing up and encouraging other gas producing nations to blow up gas infrastructure.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5851702-trump-...

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2026/04/...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/15/how-successful-is-...

It's only doom if we willfully do nothing to make it better or ignore it until it becomes a problem we can no longer fix.