The AI industry is desperate for data centre power anywhere it can get it. They can’t get gas turbines without years of delay. Even the repurposed jet engine gas turbines they were really hoping wo…
  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

    • Cadbury Moose@wandering.shop
      3·
      1 hour ago

      @dgerard @frezik

      The problem is alway interconnects.

      (There aren’t that many of them, and they tend to be scaled for fossil-fuelled power stations, probably 1MW being the smallest unless there were CHP setups with a grid feed.)