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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces
I'm curious to know who's suggesting it would be the same level of investment to use solar and wind with battery storage to power the data centre. Amazon invested in some solar farms in Alberta to power their cloud data centres in Calgary, but they have been upfront about it being more expensive. One main reason Amazon chose Calgary is because even they would be using solar power, they can still use natural gas powered electricity at the drop of a hat, and can use tons of it if they ever needed to.
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They weren't comparing the level of investment to use solar and wind with battery storage to burning gas. They were comparing the cost of investing in renewable energy with the proposed investment in the existing coal fired electricity plants in Saskatchewan. It wasn't specifically about the data centre, which will obviously increase the demand for power, unless they had their own power generation (which isn't the case, as far as I can see).
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