Tesla, Renew Home, and Sunrun Plan to Use Home Solar and Batteries to Power Data Centers
What’s newAcross the country, data centers are gobbling up power, and Americans are paying the bill for rising costs. Everyone involved in building these things needs energy now, but energy infrastructure takes years to build. Tesla, Sunrun, and Renew Home say they can help meet the ever-growing power needs of A.I. data centers by linking together devices that are already sitting in people’s homes: * Rooftop solar* Home batteries* Smart thermostats* Other controllable loadsThey’re planning to coordinate these into “virtual power plants” that can respond in minutes to increased energy needs…
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