In northern Switzerland, a construction team is hard at work excavating a hole in the ground that will end up being over 88 ft (27 m) deep, and spanning the length of two soccer pitches. This pit will be home to Switzerland's first redox flow battery for storing clean energy – and it'll be the most…
  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
    391·
    5 months ago

    The giant battery will be fed with excess energy generated by windmills.

    Nice.

    This makes the life of the battery practically limitless.

    Good.

    Plus, it’s non-flammable, and almost completely recyclable at the end of its service life.

    Great.

    capacity of 2.1 GWh, which is estimated to be enough to supply 210,000 households with power for an entire day.

    Amazing.

    Beyond preventing outages, this one will also be tasked with meeting high demand from AI data centers in the area.

    Fuck.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      I don’t see why anyone would build a AI datacenter in this more populated area of the world, with all the regulations and restrictions in emissions.

        • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          But the environment is “Folksseele”, important to the people. And it was too hot already in April, the glaciers melt away.