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by thrower123 2585 days ago
I would be very leery of a datacenter that didn't have their own on-site generation plants that can be guaranteed to supply power in the event of a grid failure. If a substation goes down on a cloudy day, I would hope that they have a big diesel generator or gas plant on standby regardless.
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The solution to that is to have enough solar to generate the power you need even on cloudy days, then sell the excess to the power company on normal days.