Yes, but energy density doesn’t matter for most applications and the waste it produces is highly problematic.
Thats a chicken/egg peoblem. If enough renewables are build the storage follows. In a perfect world goverments would incentvice storage but in an imperfect one problems have to occure before somebody does something to solve them. Anyway, according to lazard renewables + storage are still cheaper than NPPs.
Slow, expensive, riddeled with corruption, long ago surpassed by renewables. Why should we use it?
Australia’s big battery fleet now making more money from arbitrage than frequency control
https://startrek.website/post/15591191

Australia’s big battery fleet now making more money from arbitrage than frequency control - Star Trek∶Website
It wasn’t even an accident, he just killed a cyclist because he wanted to drive on a bicycle path without being, rightfully, called out for it. Bonus points for having his child in his car.
This looks exactly like I always imagined battery storage should look like, at least in a first step. Mid-sized batteries strategically distributed in the grid for frequency regulation/grid balancing.
Sweden switches on largest battery energy storage system in the Nordics - Energy Storage
https://startrek.website/post/15419768

Sweden switches on largest battery energy storage system in the Nordics - Energy Storage - Star Trek∶Website
No idea what you mean and not gonna read the ipcc report now.
Ok, bask in your american exceptionalism if you please.
Those data centers would soon be somewhere else due to… economics. And even if not, wouldn’t be significant.