Answer 1; Highmore South Dakota. Admire the pictures of the windfarm after the windstorm. So much for free power.
20-40 turbines were destroyed from an unprecedented microburst event, out of more than 70,000 utility-scale wind turbines operating nationally. Fewer than 0.01% are lost to extreme weather each year.
Answer 2, Night. So much for solar power, now you have to add batteries. Take a modest 50 MW data center and a 15 hour winter night and see how many Tesla Max power batteries (3.9 MWH each) it takes to get through the night, and then calculate their combined weight.
You mean a Tesla Megapack? The new one is 5 MWH. If you do the math, it's $150 million for the batteries. No idea what the weight is or why that even matters. You're not supposed to move it around after installation.
So $150 million a lot right? Well, the cheapest nuclear plants built in China is that price for 50 MW. Unless you want Chinese construction firms and more importantly the Chinese state regulators in charge of your project, you're going to pay a lot more than what they pay. The most recently built US nuclear reactors are units 3 and 4 at Vogtle, with a construction cost of $16.5 million per MW, or $824 million for 50 MW.
That's almost doubling the cost of your $1 billion data center by the way.
>Bonus problem, there is a heavy overcast today. The PV is at 8% of nameplate. (That's a real number by the way,) Now how many solar panels do you need to run the data center and recharge the batteries?
Same number as before. You just use the ones in Arizona where the sun is shining. And just FYI, we invented this concept called a power grid, so power production and consumption don't have to be in the same location. It's pretty new so you might not have heard of it.