Data centers are huge energy hogs and require 24/7 uptime. Utility companies donāt generate enough power to supply all of the new interconnection requests that they are getting. For example, OpenAI and Oracle just announced a new 4.5 GW data center, thatās enough to power half of Los Angeles. To make sure that they can keep the servers on, tech companies are scrambling to build new power plants behind the meter (AKA off-grid) to provide uninterrupted power to their precious GPUs.
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