• China is building all these power plants for energy independence. Less than 20% is thermal energy. AI is today’s bingo card, but it’s also transportation and industry (the kind which actually makes things), and globally, China now dominates battery and solar manufacturing.

    • Not to mention that they’ve gone all in on EVs, and you need power plants to charge all of them.

    • Yeah, not sure what OP is smoking. China is doing the right thing here. Build a lot of local solar & wind and gain independence from all those unreliable fossil fuel dictatorships while doing something to slow climate change.