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This is super exciting. Highly-reliable, off-grid power is amazing. Today, datacenters have to buy massive diesel generators, and ensure they have diesel suppli
by sargun 12y ago
This is super exciting. Highly-reliable, off-grid power is amazing. Today, datacenters have to buy massive diesel generators, and ensure they have diesel supplies in case of grid power failure. This infrastructure is surprisingly difficult to maintain.
It sounds like UPower's devices are always-on, and although they're not directly competitive with grid power, it sounds significantly simpler to power your datacenter off of N+1 of these devices, and then potentially pump power back into the grid during high-demand, and use the grid during outages of the UPower system, and to bridge periods of maintenance.
There are many datacenters that are in not very populated towns. These sound like great places to put generators.
Datacenters are everywhere, even in countries with less regulation than the US. I don't know what the export laws are around these "nuclear batteries" (small scale reactors), but I for one am very excited!