Comment by pinkgolem
2 years ago
>I mean, how come even large consumers of electricity do not buy and own their own infrastructure to generate it?
They sure do? BASF has 3 power plants in Hamburg, Disney operate Reedy Creek Energy with at least 1 power plant and I could list a fair bit more...
>For example, how long does it take to rent another rack that you didnt plan for?
I mean, you can also rent hardware a lot cheaper then on AWS. There certainly are providers where you can rent out a rack for a month within minutes
Some universities also have their own power plants. It’s also becoming more common to at least supplement power on campus with solar arrays.