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Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Or low-carbon energy from renewableenergy systems rather than nuclearpower, with its needs for cooling water. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science.
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The grid might not meet that demand Electricity for data centers comes from the grid, and by extension, the mix of power plants that supply the grid. New data center proposals can be of the scale of nuclearpower plants and some even seek to connect directly to existing nuclear plants.
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