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Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.
(yaleclimateconnections.org)
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Huh that's neat, I didn't know they just plugged into a socket. From what I know balancing the voltage and frequency of an electric grid is extremely delicate business, but I guess it's fine since it's so much electrically smaller than the main generators?
Also stuffing an inverter in random small electronics is probably so much easier than it used to be not that long ago.
What about batteries? Could you plug one of those big, AC camping "powerbanks" in between the solar and the mains? So that devices downstream are able to run directly off solar energy without going "into" and "out of" the grid?
If mains goes down they stop feeding in power within 10 ms, or so. Of course, you can illegally feed in more, if you know what you're doing.