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This is cool, but I'm waiting for the announcements for datacenters to start establishing on-site geothermal power for baseload power supply.


https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250612778008/en/XGS...

seems like they're getting the ball rolling, will be interesting to see how this scales


Tech scale isn't the problem.

The problem is geographic. You need hot rock near the surface. It's too expensive to drill deep in most places.


On-site? (Behind the meter)

You'll be waiting a while as the subsurface siting is highly specific. These would be unicorn projects.

Datacenters are trying to just pull geothermal electrons from same geographic grid, at best.




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