You Can't Power Your Data Center Only with Renewables

Re:You Can't Power Your Data Center Only with Renewables by jvanderbot on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:56PM (#35471154)

These are some very tired arguments around the high low cycles of solar and wind.

I don't think anyone really believes that a zero - storage solution is viable for anything let alone data centers.

And hopefully in 20 years we're generating fuel from atmospheric carbon, using nuclear more intelligently, and have sane medium term storage options.

But that's the better point of TFA that they missed: trying to clean up data center energy use will spur those advances.

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Re:You Can't Power Your Data Center Only with Renewables by Valgrim on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:25PM (#35471560)

It can makes sense if your end product can be stored by itself, like desalinated water or hydrogen or ammonia or even heat.

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Re:You Can't Power Your Data Center Only with Renewables by cultofmetatron on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:09PM (#35474502)

porche is making sythetic gasoline. put it somewhere where electricity is dirt cheap cough iceland cough and you could easily fuel all the shipping containers with this new e-fuel. its gasoline so it stores like gasoline

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