Comment by pyrale
11 hours ago
Europe has lots of zero-cost windows for electricity, and areas with cheap prices. The real issue is access to oil and gas.
11 hours ago
Europe has lots of zero-cost windows for electricity, and areas with cheap prices. The real issue is access to oil and gas.
Maybe for training big models one can wait for times when the wind is blowing.
There are worse ideas.
I could imagine a belt of data centres around the equator, that hand off their computational loads as the sun sets. Good scifi-esque premise.
That does not really sound practical to let datacenters costing billions idle half the time.