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> But also, it makes sense not to transmit power too far from where you are yep, they’ll waste the energy trying to transmit it sounds like they’re going to b
by yieldcrv 3y ago
> But also, it makes sense not to transmit power too far from where you are
yep, they’ll waste the energy trying to transmit it
sounds like they’re going to be attracting bitcoin miners. they’re the only use case that’s able to be in the middle of nowhere without needing other infrastructure, like robust internet.
any other use cases you all know of?
- aorloff 3y agoPowering a casino
- yieldcrv 3y agoPeople have to commute to, well maybe. If more infrastructure comes up around there and people live there then its a nice long game.
- sunshinesnacks 3y ago> they’ll waste the energy trying to transmit it High voltage transmission lines are very efficient. On the order of 1-2% loses per 100 miles for 500 kV carrying 1000 MW [0]. [0] https://web.ecs.baylor.edu/faculty/grady/_13_EE392J_2_Spring11_AEP_Transmission_Facts.pdf https://web.ecs.baylor.edu/faculty/grady/_13_EE392J_2_Spring...
- theptip 3y agoDatacenter for AI training workloads.
- yieldcrv 3y agoThats pretty good if the data is already there, other data centers rely on heavier internet infrastructure
- novok 3y agoFiber lines have less power transmission loss than the equivalent power lines themselves. In this hypothetical build out I'm guessing the huge fiber runs would be part of it.
- toast0 3y agoCabling in robust internet wouldn't be too hard, if that were the only factor. Pull fiber from Salt Lake City and Albuquerque, maybe Denver and Phoenix and boom. There's US highways in all directions, so you can pull along the road, most likely. You'd get at least two way redundancy going North and South, maybe three way if you take different paths to get to Phoenix and Albuquerque. But you also need/want robust power delivery to run a datacenter, and a single local solar project isn't robust power delivery. If you had robust power delivery, those transmission lines could be used to export the solar, and it wouldn't make sense to put a datacenter there anymore.
- justinwp 3y agoTransmission lines are already there because of the nearby decommissioned coal plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Generating_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Generating_Station