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You can't run a data center on solar or wind (even w/ batteries included). Everything they're building runs on gas & coal like what Musk got running for xAI.
by measurablefunc 6mo ago
You can't run a data center on solar or wind (even w/ batteries included). Everything they're building runs on gas & coal like what Musk got running for xAI.
- RealityVoid 6mo agoYou can and _must_ if you want competitive costs. Musk famously overpaid in order to get speed of deployment. I was reading geohot's musings about building a data center and doing so cost effectively and solar is _the_ way to get low energy costs. The problem is off-peak energy, but even with that... you might come off ahead. And that dude is anything but a green fanatic. But he's a pragmatist.
- rangestransform 6mo agoThat’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines
- therobots927 6mo agoThey aren’t building out datacenters the way the US is. The arms race is a myth.