It's happening elsewhere too; in NL, there's plenty of incentives to go green - cheap, subsidized solar, hard push from the EU to transition to electric vehicles in less than a decade , etc - but the grid capacity just isn't able to keep up, even with multi-billion investments, which results in some businesses not getting a connection to the grid or new green energy projects being delayed.
Which is more an inconvenience than a problem for the general population, but still.
The other thing that's happening is that while the energy companies, with help / subsidies from the local and EU government, build large offshore wind parks and the like, at the same time the capacity is bought up by large new datacenters from the likes of Microsoft and Google, meaning that they don't actually replace grey energy sources. Said datacenters also use up drinking water for cooling, for some reason.
> capacity is bought up by large new datacenters from the likes of Microsoft and Google
That is surprising but also makes a lot of sense. Companies go for the already built cheaper option to maintain that they’re going green while taking it from others! That’s actually kind of harmful and they should have to pay for building energy if they want the moral credit for it.
Which is more an inconvenience than a problem for the general population, but still.
The other thing that's happening is that while the energy companies, with help / subsidies from the local and EU government, build large offshore wind parks and the like, at the same time the capacity is bought up by large new datacenters from the likes of Microsoft and Google, meaning that they don't actually replace grey energy sources. Said datacenters also use up drinking water for cooling, for some reason.