Duncan S. Campbell

Also this piece from @duncamp.bsky.social at @scalemicrogrids.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social at Stripe, Kyle Baranko at Paces, and others:

www.offgridai.us

Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enough How off-grid solar microgrids can power the AI race

Some rando on the airport shuttle overheard my friends and I talking about microgrids to power AI datacenters in the desert and assured us it was impossible because it was too hot and you couldn’t generate enough power. I referred him to @duncamp.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/duncanca...

Has there ever been an off-grid CCGT before?

I don’t really see the reason to build them. Plenty of solar yet to build that’s more economic.

Pretty sure giant off-grid solar/battery/generator are going to become very come for large new loads, including data centers.

Fast, scalable, and cheap enough.

Everything I want to do is illegal:

- build giant industrial power networks without involving the monopoly utility

- install solar on my balcony without bending the knee to insane bureaucratic morass

- share my extra power with my neighbor across the fence line

Where are all the energy people here?