| ▲ | wongarsu 4 days ago | |
And there is great cost saving potential in vertical integration. Distribution and transmission are huge costs. If you can build a data center right next to a power plant and just take all their power you get much better prices. Not trivial to do with the kinds of bursty loads that seem typical of AI data centers, but if you can engineer your way to a steady load (or at least steady enough that traditional grid smoothing techniques work) you can get a substantial advantage | ||
| ▲ | theptip 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> bursty loads that seem typical of AI data centers Don’t datacenters want to run at their rated capacity 24/7? | ||