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... but it's not clear the author knows what that is.

"Additional gas-powered cars on the road" is another one of those fuzzy units like "enough to power ___ homes."

That's about a billion dollars of power plant, enough to power a large city.

At this moment California's electric demand is about 27,000 megawatts. It would take about 30 of these electric plants to power the entire state.

A single 900 megawatt electric plant could power a city the size of San Francisco.

That's one of many reasons to reject Imitation Intelligence. Natural gas is a very dirty fuel that contributes greatly to global heating. It's not any better than coal and will end whatever is left of the natural world as humans have known it.

I use the phrase "imitation Intelligence" because language is important. "Artificial Intelligence" implies that these machines are intelligent. They are not. They are merely a poor imitation of a single narrow facet of actual intelligence.