A Datacenter Built Its Own Gas Plant

One operator chose on-site generation over waiting for grid interconnection, which says a lot about infrastructure bottlenecks

This "datacenter" is extremely funny. The datacenter itself is actually super quiet. But the locality accidentally permitted & sorta noise-exempted a massive natural gas power plant on the same plot, so the datacenter operator built one t
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