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A giant pit in Switzerland will soon house the world's most powerful redox flow battery (newatlas.com)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 43 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The giant battery will be fed with excess energy generated by windmills.

Nice.

This makes the life of the battery practically limitless.

Good.

Plus, it's non-flammable, and almost completely recyclable at the end of its service life.

Great.

capacity of 2.1 GWh, which is estimated to be enough to supply 210,000 households with power for an entire day.

Amazing.

Beyond preventing outages, this one will also be tasked with meeting high demand from AI data centers in the area.

Fuck.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't see why anyone would build a AI datacenter in this more populated area of the world, with all the regulations and restrictions in emissions.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Regulations in Switzerland rarely get in the way of making money. Ever heard of UBS?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

But the environment is "Folksseele", important to the people. And it was too hot already in April, the glaciers melt away.