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XorNotyesterday at 11:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

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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podocarptoday at 1:17 AM

Are the UPSes actual batteries or just backup generators? If they're generators then that defeats the point. If they're batteries then it's kinda just regular solar then?

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turberttoday at 12:31 AM

when the GPU capex overshadows everything else your idle hardware is burning enormous amounts of money