Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal

We both know that - but we also know that LNG has suddenly gone from being cheap and plentiful to crazy expensive and often in short supply thanks to the Iran war.

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 24 April 2026 at 7:52 AM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Shane Ronan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal

Neither solar or wind is particularly cost effective, even at scale.

Shane

On Apr 23, 2026, at 10:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:


And now thanks to the Iran war, I suspect they’ll all hurriedly transition to wind or solar or anything other than natural gas.

From: Shane Ronan via NANOG <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 24 April 2026 at 6:51 AM
To: North American Network Operators Group <[email protected]>
Cc: Shane Ronan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal

We've long surpassed the power available from the commercial power grid.
MANY large scale data centers are using cogeneration with natural gas
turbines. I don't however think they would be approved for that in the
middle of downtown Chicago.

shane

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM Matthew Petach via NANOG <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM Christopher Morrow via NANOG <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > but Cermak is a big building. They can't use up *THAT* much of it.
> Also,
> > diversifying to tier 2 markets would probably help a lot not have so many
> > eggs in one basket.
> >
> > how much power, exactly, is landing in Cermak? do you think you could
> > use all of that up with your set of 120kw NVidia racks?
> >
>
> What, nobody is putting shipping-container-sized micro nuclear reactors on
> the rooftops of the buildings to augment power capacity?
>
> Come on, people, start thinking outside the box a little.  ;)
>
> Matt
>
> (yes, yes, permitting, upgrading electrical wiring to handle 10MW coming in
> from a shipping container on the roof, not as trivial as it sounds...but
> still, I think we're coming up on the tail end of counting entirely on the
> power grid to deliver power to high-density compute facilities)
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