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wongarsutoday at 6:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Both are questionable. Tidal power is super neat in theory but we really struggle to make it viable in practice. GPUs in space are probably the lower risk option, but with even more questionable economics

My preferred outlandish idea would be to put the data centers next to solar farms in the Sahara. I just don't know yet how we are going to make the batteries to power that through the night


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ssl-3today at 7:51 PM

Perhaps: At night, the solar-powered datacenter simply sleeps. (This doesn't fit every workload, but it can fit more than zero of them.)

fragmedetoday at 9:07 PM

You put mirrors in space so the sun shines at night in certain places.