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4. Increased demand from Data Centers is on a collision course with Trump's cutting Solar and Wind.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:58 PM
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We may endure an economic crisis driven by the AI & Data Science need for electricity, but the tech sector development will eventually result in increased investment in the Offshore Industry's ability to vastly increase the supply of electricity via floating offshore wind turbines and solar facilities. Because the issue is global, there will be plenty of examples of innovative solutions from Asia, Europe and Africa to show that the supply of clean energy is effectively limitless. And the latest trend toward P2X (Power-to-X) using electricity generated at the wind/solar site converted to hydrogen as an alternative to transmission to shore will boost the hydrogen economy needed for electric vehicles, etc. and will eliminate the false argument that renewables require grids to use redundant fossil fuel generators.

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