• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    America. It’s an enormously huge country with a lot of infrastructure built in waves as people moved west across it. Huge amounts of small towns and cities everywhere that built thier grids using poles and just haven’t upgraded since because of the cost of replacing all of it and burying two centuries of cable.

    There’s also large areas where burying electric cables just isn’t feasible for various reasons. It’s not a simple change.