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I thought of this too. Iirc it was bigger problem because surging spikes in power and cooling were harder and more costly to account for.

I'm not au fait with network data centres though, how similar are they in terms of their demands?

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I think the issue is exactly the spikiness because of how AC electricity works (whereas if the data centered were DC - eg wired through a battery - it wouldn't be an issue)

I expect you're right that GPU data centers are a particularly extreme example

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