Every time someone puts a solar panel on a data center, rather than hooking up a gas turbine or connecting it to the grid, it is lowering your energy bill. If you were building a data center -even in… (View Post)

The Robert Smithson powergen primer. There are basically three costs: build, maintainance, fuel. Gas: low, low, high Coal: medium, medium, medium Nuclear: high, high, low Wind: high, low, none Solar:… (View Post)

Pretty much every data center that I'm involved in right now is putting solar panels on their roofs, because the economics are absolutely incredible. These panels are going up with zero governme… (View Post)

It is, but don't forget that if you're using a gross number you're including lots of people who come and go. If you have half a million students coming every year and then half a milli… (View Post)

The cost of gas fired power generation is not the power stations themselves (although, I admit the prices for them have recently spiked thanks to AI), but the natural gas itself. (View Post)