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I can't imagine much new investment into UK datacentres will happen with electricity prices at £0.66/kWh ($0.80). That's a quoted day time price for a fixed 12

• trhway 4y ago
  >electricity prices at £0.66/kWh ($0.80) At this price (20x of solar cost in sunny regions) solar panels even in UK look like a great business. A square meter panel costs $200 and generates 200 watt. Say only half - 100 watt - in UK. That is 0.64kWh per 8 hour day. I.e. $0.50/day at those prices - basically a crypto level of ROI - 400 days. Wind, especially in the ocean, is even better. I wonder if the current energy crisis - and thus the resulting increased prices providing much better ROI for green investment - would move the world to green economy more than anything else before. In some paradoxical sense Russia attacking Ukraine is what may prove to be the biggest driver for greening of our civilization.