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That's to power a single data center though, how would that scale?

If I'm doing the math right, Minnesota used 65.7 TWh of power last year so to store 3 days worth of power just for that one city we would need a battery 18x larger than the one mentioned here.

I can't imagine we could ever scale such storage capacity for all energy use, let alone all the wind and solar required to fill it.



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