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by hdgvhicv 16 days ago
A self sufficney solar, battery, data centre is about 70% cost on the data centre and 10% on the battery.
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Okay and not exploding makes РБМК reactor 70% more expensive (maybe), but we kinda want it to not explode, I guess?

I understand that singling out datacenters specifically isn't really fair, but if they start accounting for 25% of the grid, then I have to pay for everybody's dancing JD Vance gifs even I don't look at them, at which point the line between communism and free market gets a bit blurry to me.