Yes but those breakers provide only over current protection which is great for a radial system but breaks down once you add generation on various feeders.

Google pumped storage. This is what most grid scale energy storage is. It’s the concept behind hydroelectric dams as well

Unfortunately there is directionality when it comes to the protection. I’d love to see a fault study of a house with a bunch of these on different circuits.

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or just don’t understand how fragile democracies are

I think we also need to remember that there’s children on the internet who maybe are still learning about world affairs

Hilarious dude. I’ve designed some of the things you mention. Data centers consume power, a shit ton of it. The idea that the demand is increasing but the price won’t is bonkers to me. And that’s before you consider all the labor going towards building new infrastructure for these things rather than repairing our existing grid. This trend is absolutely ravaging our industry. I’m being asked to design GREENFEILD fossil fuel gen stations to feed gigawatt scale data centers. How is that not insane? We as a society are burning our planet for LLMs

I think you’re glossing over how interconnected the grid is. California does not generate it’s own power, it buys a significant amount from Oregon. So if data centers are being built in Oregon, that will impact costs in California. For instance, there’s a DC link from the dams on the Columbia in eastern oregon that goes directly to southern California, and that area is now absolutely littered with data centers. Like a whole city of them right by the dams. They are there specifically for the cheap land and cheap hydro energy. And they use A LOT. Obviously I’m not packing any numbers here but I also wasnt born yesterday. Zero chance that all that load, there specifically, isn’t impacting prices.

*Spain is. Everyone else is all aboard it seems. They may whine and complain but they’re all on team imperialism. As far as I can tell European leaders are enablers just like American democratic leaders are.

I think the issue is you assume it will be enforced universally. It won’t. It will be dependent on the makeup of the district and the color of the individual voter. It will be up to individuals at polling stations (and any ICE present) whether ‘exceptions’ can be made for people that are ‘obviously citizens but forgot their ID’. Or whether a married woman’s name mismatch is an issue or not based on her skin/hair color and way of speaking. It’s going to be selectively enforced, by design