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For one, redundant systems. For another, lots of sensors. Electric generation also has a whole lot of important things going on that take tons of cabling. Burning the coal is the easy part. Grid phase alignment and a host of other fun things need to happen quickly and in a coordinated way with failovers and data lines to multiple separate places.