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    2 days ago

    For solar, a datacenter would require 7.5 million square feet of solar panels and around 2 gigawatt-hours of battery capacity to survive a year completely off grid, and that’s in perfect conditions.

    Though it could be done with 11-12 3.4MW onshore wind turbines…

    the “Average” datacenter requires 10Megawatts of power to run… That’s not taking into account that AI datacenters run 10-12x more power…

    Nano-Nuclear is probably the best option for any of these…it’s constant, the fuel rods last decades, and it’s not weather dependent… Though I’d still have the batteries in the mix because no power source is 100% reliable.