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I wonder if it will be setup to sell surplus power back to the grid? I can imagine that these companies might start trying to make extremely aggressive scale out / scale back rules so that at low usage times extra power can be sold and recoup some costs.

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>Major data center developer and operator Equinix (EQIX.O), opens new tab has entered into several advanced nuclear electricity deals, including power purchase agreements for fission energy and pre-ordering microreactors for its operations, the company said on Thursday. Big Tech's race to expand technologies like generative artificial intelligence, which requires warehouse-like data centers that can require city-sized amounts of electricity at a single site, is driving up global energy consumption and raising fears about depleted power supplies.

I wonder if it will be setup to sell surplus power back to the grid? I can imagine that these companies might start trying to make extremely aggressive scale out / scale back rules so that at low usage times extra power can be sold and recoup some costs. Archive: https://archive.today/qFPkh From the post: >>Major data center developer and operator Equinix (EQIX.O), opens new tab has entered into several advanced nuclear electricity deals, including power purchase agreements for fission energy and pre-ordering microreactors for its operations, the company said on Thursday. Big Tech's race to expand technologies like generative artificial intelligence, which requires warehouse-like data centers that can require city-sized amounts of electricity at a single site, is driving up global energy consumption and raising fears about depleted power supplies.

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