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‘Every solar plant can be a data center’
Rune Energy closed a $40 million seed funding round recently to build modular, plug-in data centers for solar farms. Can you tell us about where the idea to turn solar farms into data centers originated?
Summary
Rune Energy’s business model is based on a simple premise: data centers need vast amounts of clean, deployable power and there are thousands of solar plants available as an underused resource. By retrofitting solar farms with plug-in, modular data center systems manufactured at its factory in California, Rune Energy is addressing several big teething problems that data center developers, policymakers and grid operators are scratching their heads over.
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