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Basically, yes. It's about cooling efficiency, cost-effectiveness, practicality and scalability. Water has excellent heat transfer properties, which allows for
by xwowsersx 3y ago
Basically, yes. It's about cooling efficiency, cost-effectiveness, practicality and scalability. Water has excellent heat transfer properties, which allows for efficient cooling. As I understand it, solar will have limited capacity and depend on sunlight availability..which obviously fluctuates based on weather conditions, whereas data centers need continuous power supply. Also, cost of installing a large-scale solar power system and maintaining battery storage can be high.
- Two4 3y agoUsing solar without batteries to supplement baseload requirements is a great cost-cutting exercise, because it reduces grid draw when data center power requirements are highest (business hours) and electricity is most expensive. You can also add batteries later if they start to make more business sense.
- xwowsersx 3y agoAh interesting, make sense. You're saying use solar most abundant and cost-effective, effectively optimizing energy consumption and saving money by leveraging solar during high-demand periods? Just spitting it back to confirm I got what you're saying.
- Two4 3y agoMore or less, yes, although I'm not sure what you mean by "solar most abundant and cost-effective"