Oh, it’s his push to try and keep coal relevant. This guy continues to amaze me with how stupid he is. What’s even worse is the people who believe in him.
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The optimal location for a data center may not be the same as the optimal location for a generating plant. Assume the generating plant uses natural gas, then the plant needs to be near a pipeline with spare capacity, the data center needs to be near fiber.
botella36 on
Just because the generating plant and the data center are co-locales does not mean that they should not be connected to the electric grid. The grid provides backup and reliability so that the datacenter can run 24×7×365 when the plant has an outage for maintenance. To connect a huge datacenrer to the grid, you need transmission.
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Oh, it’s his push to try and keep coal relevant. This guy continues to amaze me with how stupid he is. What’s even worse is the people who believe in him.
The optimal location for a data center may not be the same as the optimal location for a generating plant. Assume the generating plant uses natural gas, then the plant needs to be near a pipeline with spare capacity, the data center needs to be near fiber.
Just because the generating plant and the data center are co-locales does not mean that they should not be connected to the electric grid. The grid provides backup and reliability so that the datacenter can run 24×7×365 when the plant has an outage for maintenance. To connect a huge datacenrer to the grid, you need transmission.