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Swing and a miss. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5002265/texas-power-grid-is-challenged-by-electricity-loving-computer-data-centers
Texas power grid is a special case though.
It's the same issue with all power grids, the one in the city isn't separate from the one in rural locations, hell over here the longest main line is over 1000km long, that's a whole lot of locations getting their electricity from the same place
Do your goalposts have wheels?