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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Data centers are moving toward hybrid flywheel-battery energy storage systems that combine physical flywheels with chemical batteries. It won't be like this forever. [/quote] No they won’t, not with current technology or costs of battery energy storage. A single MW battery is the size of a shipping container and costs more than a million dollars. Data centers now are typically 100-300MW or even larger. There is not enough room on most of these data center sites for hundreds of MW of battery storage capacity, and the cost would be astronomical. Data centers also use this amount of electricity continuously, so 100MW of storage capacity would only last around an hour if the (100MW) data center pulls 100% of energy from the battery storage. Even then the data center still needs to take extra electricity from the grid at some point or create pollution with generators to have the electricity to store in the first place. [/quote]
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