| ▲ | wmf 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||
For whatever reason, nobody is trying to build solar-powered AI datacenters. Maybe they can't find enough land. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | fckgw 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
The space required to install enough solar panels, especially in the places these things are going (like Ohio, where it's NOT ideal for solar generation), would far, far outsize the data center itself by a significant magnitude. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | treis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Half the time you get 0 solar power. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | quickthrowman 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
It takes 2.5 million solar panels to generate 1GW of electricity assuming 400W per panel and direct sunlight. 2.5M times 18 sq ft per panel is about 1000 acres or ~1.55 sq mi. That would work for a 1 GW data center, during the day, without clouds, during the summer. | ||||||||||||||
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