Can Load-Sharing Data Centers Give Renewables an Advantage?
/IFL SCIENCE takes at look at long distance transmission of electricity.
Professor Sangwon Suh, of the University of California, suggests, “data processing be shifted around the world to take advantage of wherever there happens to be an abundance of cheap, clean power at the time.”
WHEN ITS SUNNY IN CALIFORNIA, SHIFTING DATA PROCESSING FROM THE EAST COAST TO WHERE THE EVERGY IS CHEAP COULD SAVE LARGE AMOUNTS OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND CHANGE THE ECONOMICS OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION IN FAVOR OF CLEAN SOURCES. SIMONE HOGAN/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM