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Chris Wright: “We think we need 100 gigawatts of additional capacity in the…”

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And so you threw out the number 50 gigawatts, which I think is a reasonable estimate for data centers in the next five years. But we're reshoring manufacturing and all that. We think we need 100 gigawatts of additional capacity in the next five years. And their plan was minus 78. So we have to, we have to have a u turn of 178 gigawatts. Part of that is stop closing existing plants that have plenty of useful life left on them. (37:38–37:43)

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