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My biggest concern is that I have to assume there's a far greater initial cost for installation, in addition to higher costs for maintenance versus a more traditional farm

Any ideas on an potential increase in ambient temperature from those dark surfaces of the panels?

Offsetting or replacing climate warming electricity generation, especially through what seems to be an increased efficiency, is great, but we're still doing the climate warming methods.

And, not a statement of "don't do this", just concerned about regions of cold and frozen environments given our present course and interested in the data.

What type of datacenter are “AIps”? /j

To be honest, historically and depending on the installation solar power is more useful in the summer or warmer months and dams are less useful because you're hoping the reservoir fills up and provides power all winter. The reverse is true in the winter we're damn sure produce more reliable energy but solar power is slightly less available

So to me this sounds like a fairly elegant solution where the dam will now produce large amounts of power throughout the spring and summer months as well as the fall and winter months allowing for more water to be saved up for the winter and more power generation. I'm sure the solar also helps augment the winter as well