How will the UPS help the grid if the data centers suddenly cut their connection, e.g. stop drawing power?
The issue is that the disconnections happen when grid power quality drops below acceptable levels.
A poor-power-quality-tolerant UPS doesn't have to be disconnected from the grid when the power quality dips.
Therefore such sudden cutoffs would be much rarer.
The biggest complains from huge data centers are noise, traffic, water use, and power use/impact on the grid, without the economic benefits that a large-energy-using factory would typically bring.
Depending on location, a bunch of smaller complexes spread over hundreds of square miles vs. one big one might have tolerable noise and traffic levels, particularly if they are in non-residential areas. If you can get the data center down to under, a few thousand square feet, you can literally disguise it as a house.
Water is becoming a non-issue with closed-loop systems.
Electricity is still an issue. On-site power-generation/storage can mitigate this. This is one area where a single big complex may be better than a bunch of smaller complexes.
As a sidebar: Data centers do bring in some economic benefits, the most obvious one being through taxes paid (assuming the companies didn't get any sweetheart deals to avoid taxes). But after construction is complete they don't have the ongoing payroll/head-count that a big factory has.
Sorry. I need decaounces of caffeinated liquid.
data centers are engineered to cut their connection to the grid at the first sign of trouble to protect their equipment and keep services running.
You are building a billion-dollar data center and you aren't putting routine-but-poor-power-quality-tolerant power-conditioning uninterruptible power supplies between the grid and your sensitive equipment???
Besides, if you are going to build a deci-megawatt-or-bigger power consuming complex, it would help the grid out if you put some grid-scale-batteries and a large amount of always-on local power generation on-site, as some data center complexes and other heavy-industry-consumers are already doing.
According to this promotional web site it looks like they are planning to self-power.
Epstein class investors can put data centers distant from anything that matters.
On the contrary, electricity matters and they should be close to a source of power.
Why close? So they don't need to run new transmission lines to connect to the grid.
Fortunately for AI data center owners, the sun is close. If you have enough additional contiguous land you can build a solar + battery plant to meet most of your needs. If you can tolerate downtime when the batteries are drained, you won't need high-power transmission lines at all.
What's that? You didn't buy enough real estate for your AI server farm AND a solar plant AND a battery farm? Sorry, poor planning on your part doesn't generate any sympathy from me.
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Corrupt governments around the world are saying "hold my beer."
lung cancer "kills more people worldwide than any other cancer."
You say this like it's a bad thing. Far more useful is "how many people does lung cancer kill each year."
If it kills 100 people worldwide each year but all other kinds of cancer kill 99 or fewer each, then "meh" or maybe even "wow, that's great news, now we can focus our death-prevention efforts on other causes of death."
Ditto any late-1990s-era web-bulletin-board system that had a notifications system.
Teens will find a way to socialize, and they will use media to do it.
Take my home heater/AC system for example: It's got a handful of wires that lead the thermostat. I can plug in a basic mid-20th-century thermostat to it or I can plug in a 2026 top-of-the-line network-enabled-with-AI-included device.
Tractors and cars should be like that.
Some conversations should never be done using devices that you or your organization doesn't fully understand and control.
If this means meeting in person or going to fixed locations that have secure communications channels, so be it.
If this means using only using devices that your organization can verify are secure enough to meet its needs, so be it.
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Look at most instruction manuals. Look at most architectural blueprints. Look at a schematic. Look at a recipe book. Look at most other "work products" that amount to human-readable instruction manuals.
Now look for the "why". "Why are we doing this in the first place." "Why did we do it this way vs. the various alternatives." Etc.
Sometimes you will see the "why" but most of the time you won't.
At least code has the advantage of having a mechanism to put the documentation near the relevant portion of the final work product.
Sounds like the "for air" version of shark skin.
The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic light table for cutting and pasting documents.
