Batteries are a long way from rivalling liquid fuels; superbatteries for intercontinental flight may not arrive even by 2070

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• A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building. AVAustin Vernon18 Apr 2024batteries
• About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants. DPDylan Patel13 Mar 2026batteries
• An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one. AVAustin Vernon18 Apr 2024batteries
• Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model. BEBenedict Evans2 Sept 2025batteries
• Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow. CHCasey Handmer11 Oct 2023batteries

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