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by 55873445216111 1487 days ago
Fabs require 10's of MW continuous load. Not feasible to backup with diesel generator.
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Rather feasible with a set of natural gas turbine plants. Pipelines and local storage would be expensive but doable - depending on the economic damage of the plant going offline. Cost share it with a data centre facility to reduce the per megawatt cost even further.
Yes. But in layman's terms, wouldn't you just call that a "power plant"?
I mean, so too is a genset a powerplant. It's really just a question of scale and generation capacity. Imagine we're talking about a cell versus a battery. Same thing really.