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by fodkodrasz 210 days ago
You ignore the fact that these datacenters also operate at night and in windless times.

PV did get spectacularly cheaper, but is not a panacea.

Nuclear is great fit for constant load, for example a cloud datacenter where relatively constant utilization is also a business goal and multiple incentives are in place to promote this. (eg. spot pricing to move part of the load off from peaks)