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cbmuseryesterday at 10:20 PM4 repliesview on HN

»Don't understand why.«

Because you cannot turn a large datacenter with thousands of aggregates, power supplies and so on off and on like a toaster.


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podocarptoday at 1:16 AM

You totally can. I've seen cases a rat gnawed a circuit breaker and blacked out a DC. Fires too. It's not an industrial manufacturing facility. Computers can just be shut off and on. There's also nothing needed to bootstrap the other parts like cooling etc.

deepsuntoday at 12:34 AM

I totally can. And if it's powered by solar (low inertia) there's less obligations to supply side, solar panels will just get warmer a tiny bit.

skywhoppertoday at 1:12 AM

Batteries exist, and are getting better all the time.

XorNotyesterday at 11:24 PM

Datacenters literally have UPS power supplies to let them gracefully shutdown and start up.

A 4 hour grid battery and a weather forecast would easily let a training run follow energy availability.

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