alt Hacker NewsMake all DCs provide their own power and suddenly they’d be large amounts of solar and battery in cheap scrubland
A typical US DC costs about $35b per GW. Solar and battery would increase that to about $45b.
Then during summer it would generate so much excess power that it would run all the domestic air conditioning you could need.
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jauntywundrkind • today at 2:44 PM
Alas I fear we are going to rapidly build a bunch of very hard to maintain and clean up inefficient small nuclear power systems, to power a lot of this. Not next year, no, but soon.
I'm actually fine with only having access to the AI shaitan when the sun is shining over the datacenter.