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As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
(www.nytimes.com)
This article was almost surely placed because it came out that the tech firms were using accounting techniques to obscure their impact:
uh, ok. so we drill 2 big holes and link them for billions of dollars. what am i missing?
You're not missing anything. Nuclear is looking more and more like it won't be economically feasible going forward. If modern geothermal provides a cheaper way to feed dispatchable electricity into the grid, in more places, then that might very well be the last link in making a zero-carbon grid possible.
i can see how nuclear and eventually fusion will be important in the centuries to come for ... portable.. energy. just boggles my mind why we have put zero effort into geothermal
we have no problem going to ridiculous lengths for oil and gas.
I think you just answered your question.