The transition

Roamers said:
Moving solar/wind over distance is costly. On a much smaller scale, anyone that has designed a solar/battery RV system knows wires get big fast to reduce voltage drop. Data Center near source is the correct thing to do.
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Yes, please explain to us how electrons produced by solar and wind are heavier and apparently have woke cooties or something that makes them more expensive to transport than electrons from coal or natural gas. I'm listening.

The freaking point of electricity is that it is easy to transport, almost instantly, over long distances. That is what those wire things strung across the countryside do for us.
 
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Well power stations are built centrally with much shorter transmission distances thats how most grids were built, now we have to transport over large distances.
Using windpower for data centres is just farcical for sensibilities.
Stop them, all they do is spy on us
 
Chargeride said:
Well power stations are built centrally with much shorter transmission distances thats how most grids were built, now we have to transport over large distances.
Using windpower for data centres is just farcical for sensibilities.
Stop them, all they do is spy on us
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Yes, the coal plants in Wyoming are so very close to urban centers.

Actually renewables are an excellent fit for providing compute for AI training because the intermittency is easily worked around. Part of the training infra already uses an internal market to only purchase compute when it is cheap enough. And that is old established technology in use since around 2017.
 
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When you think about it, most hydroelectric generation isn't "centrally located" either.

What ignorant rot we have here.
 
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