The US grows a LOT of corn across most of the nation. HVDC links can transport a lot of power very efficiently over long distances. These systems are in use for this exact purpose in China, Canada, and Sweden where generation is far from the consumption site. It wouldn’t work across continents, but going from the Midwest to California or something wouldn’t be a problem.

Agrisolar exists. If the US converted just a few % of the acreage legally mandated for growing corn for ethanol to solar, the energy crisis essentially solves itself.

Are you running gluetun on docker desktop for windows by chance?

If so, the networking layer for DD is fucked and every new release fucks it further and differently. Make sure you’re not running any other VPNs on the host, restart the docker daemon and pray. And then move off windows before it’s too late.

Source: made the mistake of starting an *arr stack on DD for Windows cause I didn’t wanna figure out GPU pass-through on VMs, and I suffered with this for a year.