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Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan (www.techspot.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Especially for data centers, it's absolutely a waste of money.

DCs consume very high amounts of power, but in a pretty predictable way. There is no reason whatsoever to use hydrogen in that context. Hydrogen is extremely expensive and will stay expensive more or less forever. Why would a fuel cell ever be economically viable here?

Hydrogen has its uses. This is not one of them.