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The Grid Check is an independent fortnightly newsletter fact-checking claims about EVs, wind, solar, batteries and the electricity grid worldwide, including the data centres now driving so much of the demand for all of it. We check the claims the EV and green-energy industry doesn't want checked, fairly, with sources, and without the spin. A genuine, well-supported story gets reported as one too.

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