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by treis 7 days ago
Not nearly big enough for data centers approaching 1 GW. Largest is 3 GWH which gets you 3ish hours.

Theoretically you can put as many batteries together but it'd be enormously expensive and run into the same supply chain issues.

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Anything using 1GW of power is going to be "enormously expensive". The all-in cost of a 1GW data center is on the order of $50 billion. A billion dollars in storage batteries is ~2% of the cost, which is completely reasonable.

~1600 GWh of lithium batteries are produced each year and hundreds of GWh/year of production capacity have been added in each of the last few years, so ~12 GWh isn't going to upend the market.