• HubertManne ( HubertManne@piefed.social ) 
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    6 months ago

    People seem to hate this but isn’t this kinda better than making them and drawing from local grids? I kinda wonder to like I would assume to would have to be sized for maximum power needs which kinda makes me wonder if it could actually return energy back to the grid? The way I understood it amazon started selling the cloud product because they did not use as much outside of christmass time.

    • vrek ( vrek@programming.dev ) 
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      6 months ago

      I kinda agree. I don’t like huge huge data centers but this may be better than having them on land. Probably would require fiber through the ocean but that’s done plenty of times already. Deep ocean is pretty cold for cooling but the pressure and salt water contamination may make it unreasonable…