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by chx 1134 days ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/10/microsoft-agrees-to-buy-powe...

> Helion’s deal with Microsoft is to get 50 megawatts online,

Looking at solar costs https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/capital-costs... 50MW in solar would cost 50-100M and I can't imagine this could be much more expensive or it wouldn't be competitive at all. Microsoft annual operating expenses for 2022 were $114.887B so about a 1-2000 times more.