I upvoted because this seems so strange and meaningless. Maybe somebody can explain why it can be economic to scatter their servers all over the countryside? It's not like the cost of transferring renewable electricity is the issue here. I would think that maintenance, data transfer etc. are more costly.
First I thought that it just demonstrates portability, but https://examesh.de/en/ really does this
>AI Docker Instances in Wind Power Plants -We only operate Instances in green power plants, as our short video shows.
>Small RE plants, such as our Nordtank 600 60/43 with 600 kWp, are equipped with only one Edge Data Center (EDC). Two servers are currently installed in each EDC, each providing three Instances. Larger RE plants, however, can be equipped with two, three, four or even more EDCs.https://examesh.de/en/faqs/#faq-4490
The issue we are tackling is the Renewable Energy Sources Act (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...) in Germany. As of 2021 up to 6.000 wind turbines drop out and will no longer earn enough money from selling their energy. Therefore they must be switched off. With our EDC we are able to provide the operator with a second revenue stream.
The economic effect: Continued operation of the wind turbine. The EDC only uses ~5% of the generated power. ~95% of green electricity will be fed to the grid.
Side effect: Preparing for the upcoming need of Edge Data Centers.
The point I don't understand why EDC's have to be located in the turbines.
As far as I understand, Germany has good energy market. You can build datacenter where it is the most economic and buy the electricity from the supplier. The cost of locating data centers this ineffectively must make the network cost and maintenance very expensive.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadFirst I thought that it just demonstrates portability, but https://examesh.de/en/ really does this
>AI Docker Instances in Wind Power Plants -We only operate Instances in green power plants, as our short video shows.
>Small RE plants, such as our Nordtank 600 60/43 with 600 kWp, are equipped with only one Edge Data Center (EDC). Two servers are currently installed in each EDC, each providing three Instances. Larger RE plants, however, can be equipped with two, three, four or even more EDCs.https://examesh.de/en/faqs/#faq-4490
The economic effect: Continued operation of the wind turbine. The EDC only uses ~5% of the generated power. ~95% of green electricity will be fed to the grid.
Side effect: Preparing for the upcoming need of Edge Data Centers.
As far as I understand, Germany has good energy market. You can build datacenter where it is the most economic and buy the electricity from the supplier. The cost of locating data centers this ineffectively must make the network cost and maintenance very expensive.