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Manuel_D
46 days ago
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Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build ...
People still want their software to work at night. And last I checked, Louisiana had access to lots of water.
hshdhdhj4444
46 days ago
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Wait, are you making a “with solar electricity will go away at night” argument?
Manuel_D
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Because it does? You either have to have a dispatchable energy source to turn on at night and on cloudy days (usually fossil fuels), or storage for 12+ hours. Actually more than 12 hours in case there's extended periods of cloud cover.
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