How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy
by Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News from Ars Technica - All content on (#6Y4PV)
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John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, asks people to picture the last time they drove through a gusty stretch of countryside and saw wind turbines in the distance. But when they zoom into that frame, he asks, did they notice that not all of those turbines were spinning despite it being windy?
It's not typically because they're broken, Belizaire said. It's because they've been turned off.