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When you have production at a power station, your problems only start. You need to carry that power somewhere, and it takes time. Also, you have to upgrade eve
by bayindirh 2y ago
When you have production at a power station, your problems only start. You need to carry that power somewhere, and it takes time.
Also, you have to upgrade every path between the power station and your data center. It's not like flicking a switch. Your standard power budgeting doesn't take a multi-megawatt data center into account when it's first made.
And power budgeting is not on paper only. It affects from power generation schedules, demand curves, infra planning, etc. It changes literally everything.
- spacecadet 2y agoSounds like a solvable problem. Are you complaining or working on a solution?
- bayindirh 2y agoI'm a sysadmin at a multi-megawatt datacenter. We work with authorities for finding solutions, plus we also provide computational support for calculating generation schedules across the country. Plus we aid people to do their research. So, I'm not complaining, at least.
- spacecadet 2y agopreaching to the choir.
- bayindirh 2y agoIf working on a scientific supercomputer, helping researchers and doing my own research at the side is preaching to the choir, I'm a happy camper.