Chamath Palihapitiya
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And the wind is producing a lot, but it's harder to get from those areas where people are willing to put up.
I mean, people don't understand how big West Texas is.
It is an incredible amount of land and you're coming from Australia.
Where also on the west side, people don't understand exactly how much just pure nature land there is.
Yeah, undeveloped.
So the data centers follow the wind turbines, the solar installations.
How do you think about batteries?
And are you able to put those online?
Because obviously you're going to have periods where, hey, it's not a windy day.
In Texas, we have very few days when it's overcast.
So that problem is pretty much solved.
But you're going to have 50 days where the sun's not beating down.
So how do you deal with the demand and softening that duck curve?
Got it.
So on their side, they're figuring it out.
Something goes down and they could fall back.
even though you're 100% committed to renewables, if they needed to fall back to gas or whatever, they have that ability out there.
So you have that as a backup.
A lot of talk about, or a debate, are we getting ahead of our skis?
Are people slowing down?