alt Hacker News> We'll see massive expansions of wind and solar in the US because of this. Both the speed of install and low costs will guarantee it.
Implausible while Trump remains in office. He hates renewables, shuts them down even when doing so actively costs money.
Between AI hallucinated content and the politicisation of the numbers, I'm not sure how much AI compute capacity is being planned right now; would you accept a claim of 300 GW? It's a number I heard recently.
Given the capacity factor of PV, even China would have to think carefully before supplying that much PV over the next few years (300 GW avg ~= 3TW nameplate).
(Not sure about wind, wind's CF seems to vary between years).
Unless it's something on federal land businesses are pretty much ignoring Trump on renewables.
And 300GW power planned doesn't seem too far out of bounds, there are a huge number of 'planned' data centers all over the US.
World wide over 800GW of solar and wind was installed in 2025 and 2026 numbers should be over 1TW of renewables. How much of that will the US install itself is a much smaller percent, but as power prices increase the pace to profit off of it will quicken. I know China installed over 300GW themselves last year.