Cheap storage frees compute from gas turbines: a solar-plus-battery data centre beats a gas one once solar and battery cost per kW fall under about a tenth of turbine cost (Handmer 2026), so the turbine queue stops gating compute.

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  The pure solar+battery data center is cheaper than a gas-assisted or pure gas data center if solar and battery costs per kW are <~10% of the turbine/gas generator cost.

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