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Chinese Grid Operators Resist Plans to Boost Renewables to Power AI

Chinese grid operators express concern over plans to increase renewable energy powering for AI data centers by 2030, citing forecasting challenges and inflexible power consumption patterns at data centers that complicate integration of variable renewable electricity sources.

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Grid operators are concerned that the Chinese drive to hike the share of renewable electricity powering AI would raise the risks for power firms as peak demand at data centers is difficult to forecast. Industry analysts and officials have told Reuters that the Chinese strategic priority of having renewables power the majority of electricity demand at data centers by 2030 may not be feasible. “From what we understand, they (data centers) cannot really adjust power consumption load much,” Reuters quoted Pei Shanpeng, a director of Chinese…

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