Q&A: Baryonyx & Its Massive Wind-Powered Data Center Plan

Earth2Tech (Jul 30 2009) Construction , Cap and Trade , Fossil Fuel , Wind

1. Last week a 2-month-old startup called Baryonyx emerged to declare that it had won bids for three massive land leases in Texas (for over 45,000 acres combined), and would be building the largest offshore wind farms in the U.S. in order to power data centers in the South of Texas. Given that offshore and onshore wind farms have struggled with high costs (T. Boone ditched his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas), very few data centers are currently powered by renewables, and that this is coming from a virtually unknown infant company, the plan comes across as borderline ridiculous. But..... (Read Full Article)

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