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by konschubert 47 days ago
Hi,

I think that's a fair point, I underestimated the power needs.

For a 1GW data center, the economical case is probably to build about 2 GWp of solar, plus a 5GWh battery or so.

That is not unrealistic:

https://masdar.ae/en/news/newsroom/masdar-and-consortium-par...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/28/catl-secures-worlds-l...

On a sunny day, that will let you to power the data center fully from solar for most of the day, and partially through the night.

Obviously you need ~1GW of gas turbine capacity as well, for the non-so-sunny-days, so the economic case for solar here is dependent on the fuel price.