Curious how this squares with some peoples scepticism :)
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Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters
Dec 12, 2024
Last reply: 1 year ago
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Well for starters it's not just solar, it's solar plus battery storage.
Question: does it have sufficient battery that it never needs to import/export to the grid?
This will only provide power during the day. It'll want to be in a desert, too, but that's OK for the US.
Let me know where the deserts are in this country, would you?
Have you been to Walsall ?
They mention SMRs, but only to say there are hardly any SMRs in the world, neatly overlooking all the nuclear submarines. They also try to insist that there's a shortage of fuel, which there isn't.
Of course not
Its the current green myth: that all SMRs use HALEU which is in short supply due to the fact no one wants it...
Andy Burns snipped-for-privacy@andyburns.uk wrote in news:ls0hetFsmm9U1 @mid.individual.net:
My Grandma, what big batteries you've got.
All the better to spy on you my dear . . . .
Google has no idea what's going on in the world. Google it.
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