969: Could Data Centers Pay for Your Rooftop Solar? | Barry Cinnamon
Data centers need enormous amounts of power, and apparently they need it fast. What if some of the outrageous sums of money they’re willing to spend to get that power went directly toward putting solar and batteries on homes and businesses?
That’s the idea Barry Cinnamon wants to pressure-test in today’s Tactical Tuesday on SunCast.
Last week, Barry compared the dramatically different costs of solar and storage in Australia and the U.S. This week, he moves from diagnosing the problem to proposing a solution: use data center demand as a new source of capital for distributed energy.
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