A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic.

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Emerald AI founder @vsiv warns why moving AI data centers off-grid could be a "horrible outcome" for everyone: "A horrible outcome is the data centers say: I can't deal with all this regulation. I'm gonna go build my own data center off in the desert somewhere and be completely islanded from the public power grid. That is gonna deprive utilities and communities from anchor revenue for decades." "It's gonna raise costs for communities indirectly because all of the power equipment, the natural gas turbines and the power switchgear that they buy for the islanded data center is gonna raise prices for the public power system." "And ultimately, the data centers won't want it either because it'll raise the cost per token of artificial intelligence, because it's really expensive to operate your own private utility." @EmeraldAi_