It’s reported that the giant $100 billion joint venture by Stargate will largely draw its power from sustainable sources – solar energy and batteries. SB Energy, a SoftBank affiliate, is supposed to install the renewable energy systems, as per Bloomberg.
Stargate is the offspring of a conglomerative alliance of OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Group. The aim is to establish numerous data centers that will spur artificial intelligence applications. With a rapid ascent in AI and cloud computing, power is turning into a precious resource for developers and tech enterprises. As stated by the U.S Department of Energy, data centers could be guzzling as much as 12% of the total power produced in the U.S by 2028.
While nuclear energy has been a favorite among tech companies and data center developers, laser-like focus has been on avoiding the hurdles of overruns and lingering delays faced in the past. Startups are looking to evade these issues by creating and mass-producing parts of the reactor in a modular fashion.
However, establishing nuclear-based and natural gas power plants are time-consuming projects and none have been completed yet, making solar-powered plants quicker to build and a preferred choice in this scenario.
Given the immediate needs of Stargate, solar and wind farms, with their inherent modularity, rise as the likely and favorable initial source of power for their upcoming data centers.
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