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Re:Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs by throe9393i44i on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:13AM (#48708049)
It is hard to operate renewables 24/7. At night and winter, you need a big array of generators and LED lights to shine on solars. Very inefficient.

Or for every solar you need a generator as a backup!

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Re:Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs by re-framer on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:39AM (#48708346)
I asked whether solar/wind in combination with storage technologies, including but not limited to batteries, was able to reliably power a data center.
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Re:Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs by throe9393i44i on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:45AM (#48708396)
Really, no! You were going to dump peak solar/wimd energy into grid, and play stupid why "backward" public utilities need gas to do stabilisation!
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Re:Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs by mejutoco on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:38AM (#48708333)
Batteries
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