alt Hacker NewsOh nonsense. Energy is energy.
It would be hard to decarbonize long haul trucking and aviation, which together account for less than ten percent of global oil use.
Almost everything else can be powered by other things.
Might have been true thirty or forty years ago, but even back then France had almost completely decarbonized the grid.
My guess would be a giant gas plant for a data center in Texas is part of the deal for letting them build it. Oil and gas owns that state.
Even long-haul trucking can shrink rapidly between electric trucks (Australia is using those successfully - they’re cheaper and faster on hilly routes) on the shorter routes and electric trains (mature technology for a century) for many longer routes. Businesses would adjust but I think it’s really only aviation which is completely without a path until synthetic fuels arrive.