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Comment by londons_explore

6 days ago

Almost all countries have taxes and regulations on electricity (grid maintenance isn't free!), however at AI datacenter scale it makes sense to build the power plant on the same site as the datacenter, therefore avoiding those electricity taxes.

So wherever you build, you'll most likely be building the same wattage of power station as you do datacenter.

Lots of other resources can be shared too - for example shared cooling systems