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At the centre Nuclear-powered data centres are this decade's hydrogen car: a zero-emissions story incumbents prefer because it changes the least. Holds AVAustin Vernon Read this korrent →

• Same subject: data centers A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does. Holds AMAndy Masley
• Same subject: data centers A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building. Holds AVAustin Vernon
• Same subject: data centers A data centre should be split into independent power blocks fed directly at 1500 volts DC, rather than run through one central distribution system. Holds AVAustin Vernon
• Same subject: data centers A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather. Holds CHCasey Handmer
• Same subject: data centers About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants. Holds DPDylan Patel
• Same subject: data centers After the cloud exit, the next step is out of the data centre: home servers and multi-gigabit home connections make the garage startup literal again. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Same subject: data centers American data centres consume about 66 million gallons of water a day, a small fraction of what they withdraw. No longer holds BPBrian Potter
• Same subject: data centers An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one. Holds AVAustin Vernon