Why don't we put solar panels on all data centers?
>>534173429Why don't we build something useful instead of data centers?
How about we make roads of freaking solar panels?!
Sounds like a good idea to me. Especially for backup power
>>534173429Because solar panels don't produce much electricity.
>>534173429Yo dawg, why don't we put solar panels on solar panels?
>>534173429It'd take hundreds to thousands of acres of panels to generate the continuous megawatt demand required by said data centers
>>534173429We do.But why don't you build datacentres?Why are hundreds of thousands of server GPUs destined for AI workloads sitting in warehouses for months? For over a year by now?
>>534173429>600w GPU x 100,000It won't matter. They need to build dedicated nuclear power plants just to juice these things, and they are expecting to tie into the existent grid. It's not going to work, and our electric bills are already through the roof.
>>534173429roof mount wouldn't work, the power supply density vs power demand density ratio is way off. ground mount would work but they would need a lot of solar panels and a lot of land. i like this idea. if these data centers are so important AND they definitely won't drive up energy bills (i promise, goy), i don't understand why executives of these data centers won't sign personally binding agreements that guarantee no impact to utility rates for citizens.
>>534173429>pol will irrationally shit talk solar panels, but meanwhile china basically has enough free electriccity to power the entire country during the day/peak hours, and they aren't at the mercy of a bunch of goat fuckers that throw temper tantrums every 6 monthsSneering at free electricity is the one issue I will never see eye to eye with republicans
Believe it or not, datacentres require incredibly limited access.They deliberately remove stuff they don't want to be servicing from those buildings to reduce the amount of people that visit them.Solar panels need to be cleaned, inspected and maintained. This is a big no-no for a place that often requires 3 different people to authorise a plumber for an emergency repair.
All those chinee solar panels the us wasnt buting even when the govt subsidizes them. So china eats the cost and sets up a shit load of solar farms becuase what e\se are you going to do with a whole backlog of solar panels
>>534173615ACK!>The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor‘s H2 2025 coal power review reveals that new and reactivated coal power project proposals in China surged to 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2025, a record high.
>BUT THE SOLAR PANELS WON'T COVER THE ELECTRIC BILL 100% SO THAT MEANS THEY'RE USELESSWho the fuck cares, you are still supplementing their demand, and maybe you can get it down to the demand of a normal business if they have unused land nearby the data centers (most do as they keep throwing them out in the middle of nowwhere)It's like when republicans keep shitting on solar power because "OOPS, THE SUN WENT DOWN, NO MORE ELECTRICITY!" Nobody is saying completely get rid of fossil fuels, but why not reduce reliance on them by like 70% if we could?
>>534173676I visited a tier-4 datacentre in my country, and they did not have grass because they did not want to allow someone in to cut it...People take this shit very seriously.
>>534173762And it would have been even higher if not for the solar panels, and even more vulnerable to shit head muslim temper tantrums. What's your point? Yet again, republicans keep strawmanning arguments that "IF YOU CAN'T COME UP WITH ONE GREEN ENERGY SOLUTION THAT AUTOMATICALLY SOLVES ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS, THEN IT'S USELESS!"
>>534173429great fucking idea, no cap. It's got electrolytes!
>>534173520It’d take ~25,000 acres for a 600MW facility, assuming 200W/m^2 and ~6 peak solar hours, not including the storage. It’s way worse than any leftist would have you believe
>>534173429> spend money to offset the cost of the thing I made for my own profit ewww, no> make everyone else pay for it and keep the profits for myselfMuch better thanks
>>534173429look all dese server spots b tryna hop on dat solar wave rite? but lemme keep it a buck, tryna run errthang off jus da sun? sheeit dat joint ain practical rn not even a lil bit. ain bout nobody bein shook or not havin da heart. nah its straight physics not havin enough dirt to lay panels on n da fact dat dese bitches gotta stay up 24 damn 7 no cap no excuses.>dese joints b thirsty as hell but ain got nowhere to put da panelsda absolute biggest headache b how damn much juice dese server castles b suckin down versus how lil power a square foot of panels ackshually b puttin out.>u need a stupid amount of landtryna feed 1 of dem 100 mw centers only on sun power? u gon need like 1446 acres bruh. das damn near 1100 football fields no lie. a beefier 200 mw spot might need ova a whole rack of 1000 acres. 1 deep dive broke it down, each single square foot of server floor b needin sumn like 362 square feet of panels outside. da ratio b ova 100:1 deadass.>da roof ain itmost of dese hyperscale beasts b single-story but packed da hell out w mad gear. even if u slap panels over erry damn inch of da roof u still only coverin a weak-ass 1% of wut da building b pullin. digital realty 1 of da big dogs dey flat-out said dey roof setups b coverin "less than 1% of a facilitys load." 1% foh real? dat ain shit.>da sun don b out 24/7 n dese bitches cant neva sleepsun power flaky as hell but dem servers? dey gotta b on dat grind always no days off.
>>534173429solar pv is really really really inefficient. You'd have more more power by getting the sun to boil water to make steam.
>>534173971why do leftists hate being gay with there dad???
>>534174048>no sun u donesun go down u get zero. clouds roll deep? winter come thru? output b in da toilet. dat rite dere is a fatal reliability gap when u need 99.999% uptime or yo whole operashun lookin stupid.>batteries cost a whole bagonly way to make sun juice work at night is w a gang of batteries. n while bess b gettin better stackin enough of dem joints to last thru a whole night or a stretch of garbage weather? cost bread u ain even tryna spend. still stupid expensive n risky cuz seasons change n da weather b on its own program. a mix of sun wind n batteries might run u $27.50 to ova $100 a mwh. in plenty spots das smackin way harder on ya pockets than jus pullin from da damn grid.>da otha grimey economics & building headacheseven u jus tryna get a lil bit from da sun it b a whole dramatic production.>roofs cant handle da weightdem panels heavy as hell addin like 3 to 6 pounds of dead weight erry square foot n each panel might b 40-45 pounds rite where dey stick it. u cant just b throwin em up dere. u gotta get a whole structural check-up n yo old-ass building might need a roof glow-up dat ain cheap.>grid & hater regulashunseven if big solar farms pump juice into da lines dat don mean yo data center gettin dat direct sun-hit. "behind-the-meter" setups let u bypass da slow-ass utility companies but u still gotta rumble w rule-makers n nimby folk who don want no solar fields in dey backyard slowin erythang down. deloitte report say data centers bout to b hooverin up 4% of da whole globes electric by 2030. das how deep dis hole b.
>>534174074>so look wut solar ackshually good fo?stead of a main course solar just a lil side dish fo dese joints:>cuttin da peak offin places where da sun beatin solar might gulp down a lil chunk of da daytime demand. like digital realty spot in kenya b hittin up to 20% sun coverage jus to dodge dem wild-high daytime electric rates.>chasin dem green clout goalsdey mostly b slappin panels to run da less-thirsty stuff like da lights n ac units so dey can talk dat sustainability talk.>mixin & matchinda future is patchin sun w wind n battery packs. it b betta but u still tradin off how much u spend versus wut % renewable u actually get. n bruh it damn near neva hittin 100%.so aight. sun power b makin moves creepin up in da mix fah real. but its physical n money limits mean it mostly jus a role player not da damn mvp.
>>534173453Data Centers = GDP = UsefulThe world's superpowers aren't going balls to the wall for nothing.
>>534173483SolarFriggingRoadways
>>534174100>GDPproduces no productskek
>>534173489>England >Sees maybe one day of sunlight a year>SOLAR PANELS ARE USELESS
Real question is why don't we just have more nuclear power? Is it literally pussies afraid of "muh meltdowns" even though the technology and safety measures have been improved like 1000 fold than from chernobyl
>>534174139Datacenters that hold important data produce money.Datacenters that produce hallucinations do not produce money, and instead require a lot more energy, a lot more expensive hardware. They're a net negative, and why half of them (so far) have been cancelled.
>>53417414650% of all electricity in UK comes from a handful of heroic green generators in Scotland.They non-ironically had to stop a bunch of them because the power lines taking the energy to the south could not keep up.Scotland can easily provide 100% of the energy needed for the whole of UK but Americans are against it.
>>534173429to power what? the hallway lights? and then get destroyed in hail. we have real weather in most of the US, not just rain. >>534173453AI is and will be useful. To argue otherwise is ignorant and retarded. >>534173615China still relies on coal you dumb fuck. >>534174139most modern jobs in the west produce no products directly
>>534173520Nobody said they would run autonomously off the solar panels alone, but mitigate the energy consumption and use the space, you mart sharting mongoloid.
>>534173429Because a single Cisco 9508 UCS chassis has 6 PSUs that are 3 kW each, so each chassis can use 12 kW, and there's 5 of these chassis in each cabinet so that's 60 kW per cabinet, and there's like 25 of these cabinets per row, so it's 1.5 MW. It's not using 100% power, all of the time, they keep it at around 75% for some overhead.
>>534173483>>534174121Has been in development. As a road surface they get dirty and operate at shit efficiency and have major maintenance issues.As a "roof" they get dirty and operate at shit efficiency and have major maintenance issues.
>>534173429Why don't we put all data centers in the ocean?
>>534174293Without turning on a computer. Tell me what AI produced today.NOTHING.There is no products. It all exists inside a black box. destroy the black box and nothing is lost. It this your first tech boom, kiddo? if so you are in for a wild ride. This is probably my 6th or 7th.
>>534173429Data centers need to run 24/7 and have very predictable and steady sources of power. A 100,000 square foot facility could use up to 100 megawatts of power. 100,000 square feet of solar panels generates at best one megawatt of power. You would have to build a solar farm 100x the size of the data center to provide the energy it needs and it would only do so under certain conditions.Wind works much better in these scenarios. You still need a way to store it.
>>534174139Have you heard of this one weird thing called money?
>>534173429Why don't we put chimneys on all shower rooms?
>>534173971Not to mention the impact for mining the minerals for solar panels, then disposing of them. It's a very dirty technology.
>>534173429too much heat
>>534173429Solar is a meme and generates basically no electricity.
>>534174552>makes nothing real>moneyoh you are so cute. Here have a sticker for your sticker book. No go along, find your mommy.
>>534174888You're getting there! Data centers produce money, real money that people exchange for intangible product.
>>534174121Not the only option.Piezopneumatic pickups under the road surface can generate electricity from vehicle mass driving over them.It's probably not going to generate as much power as solar panels will, but they're practically weatherproof and literally built to take the beating.
>>534173429Solar panels actually super heat the ozone layer and destroy it.
>>534175115>wastes money and electricity>think free money comes outThere is no such thing as 'real money'. Anyone can create 'money'. You don't need a data centre to create money>centerand you are not even canadian ffs
>>534175283>wastes water and electricity *
>>534173429because cooling towers
>>534173615The goat fuckers did not throw temper tantrums the only ones throwing temper tantrums is you Unitedstatian of pedophile USA
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>>534175283I don't know what to tell you dude. You know how much people spend on entertainment? Trading in intangibles isn't a new concept.
>>534175507Its true though. They either reflect superheated sunlight into the atmosphere or have highly concentrated sunlight reflected towards them. Spaceweather news said something about it. I dont know if its destroying the ozone or what buts I believe him.
>>534173429Ban data centres.
>>534175681Oh I get it. you think tiktok ai content is driving the gdp. you are dumber than I thought.
>>534173429I have an idea. Let's bulldoze them all and then throw the billionaires who built them into volcanoes.
>>534173763Solar panels are generally so trash that they generally have a negative impact on power generation. They have the ability to brick entire power plants when their inverter shits the bed and also generate so little energy with such high maintenance and have to be cintered at such high temperature Greentrannies have no idea that theyre posing an idea worse than coal. Now for a prepper's house or an RV solar panels work well, but they dont scale properly.
>>534173483Indians will steal them
>>534176194Mhm. Like I said, the world's superpowers aren't going balls to the wall for nothing.
>>534173517>Yo dawg, why don't we put solar panels on solar panels?my mind is totally friggin' blown, anon. Amazing!
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