Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal

[sronan--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Neither solar or wind is particularly cost effective, even at scale.

Shane

> On Apr 23, 2026, at 10:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:
>
> 
> And now thanks to the Iran war, I suspect they’ll all hurriedly transition to wind or solar or anything other than 
> natural gas.
>
> From: Shane Ronan via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
> Date: Friday, 24 April 2026 at 6:51 AM
> To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog () lists nanog org>
> Cc: Shane Ronan <shane () ronan-online com>
> Subject: Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal
>
> We've long surpassed the power available from the commercial power grid.
> MANY large scale data centers are using cogeneration with natural gas
> turbines. I don't however think they would be approved for that in the
> middle of downtown Chicago.
>
> shane
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM Matthew Petach via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM Christopher Morrow via NANOG <
> > nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG
> > > <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > but Cermak is a big building. They can't use up *THAT* much of it.
> > Also,
> > > diversifying to tier 2 markets would probably help a lot not have so many
> > > eggs in one basket.
> > >
> > > how much power, exactly, is landing in Cermak? do you think you could
> > > use all of that up with your set of 120kw NVidia racks?
> >
> > What, nobody is putting shipping-container-sized micro nuclear reactors on
> > the rooftops of the buildings to augment power capacity?
> >
> > Come on, people, start thinking outside the box a little.  ;)
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > (yes, yes, permitting, upgrading electrical wiring to handle 10MW coming in
> > from a shipping container on the roof, not as trivial as it sounds...but
> > still, I think we're coming up on the tail end of counting entirely on the
> > power grid to deliver power to high-density compute facilities)
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