RE100 Profitability and Solution: Building an IDC Cluster Next to Nuclear Power

RE100 Profitability and Solution: Building an IDC Cluster Next to Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear power generation is abnormally high in Korea. Nuclear power plants cannot reduce power generation with constant power. Even if it can be slightly fine-tuned, it is not free to turn it off and on like LNG power generation.

Nevertheless, a lot of nuclear power plants were built because of variable costs. It is 60 won per kwh, but it seems that it does not take into account the cost of waste treatment or the risk of explosion such as Fukushima. In any case, we cannot get rid of the nuclear power plants that have been built. How to use the nuclear power plants, which are a troublesome asset, is a requirement for the RE100's success.

The reason why RE100 and nuclear power plants are at odds should be viewed in terms of power demand.

Logic and logic
01. Solar power generates power when demand for cooling surges in the middle of summer. In this case, nuclear power, which has to be sold at the highest price, cannot receive a high price.

02. Electricity remains on holidays because Korea uses a lot of electricity in the manufacturing industry. In other words, on holidays, almost nuclear power and solar power alone leave the amount of power, so if solar power plants are added, nuclear power plants cannot find the demand for electricity.

03. When a nuclear power plant cannot find its power demand, someone must use it by force. As mentioned earlier, nuclear power plants cannot reduce power generation. In other words, it takes months to turn it on and off once. If a nuclear power plant is stopped, depreciation costs will cause a deficit of 5 billion won per 1GW power plant per day.

04. That's why we're asking to make hydrogen with the leftover electricity. Hydrogen that is made using electricity is not efficient, but if the power plant does not emit electricity, a serious problem seems to occur.

05. Thanks to nuclear power plants, electricity remains at night and remains on holidays. Therefore, only by discounting late-night electricity, building pumped-out power plants, and creating hydrogen, ammonia, etc. can the remaining electricity be exhausted.

6. It is said that the variable cost of a nuclear power plant is 60 won. It's more than 100 won considering one cost or another, but let's say so. What is the variable cost of solar power? Solar power is generated when the sun rises. There is a fixed cost issue, but the variable cost is zero.

07. Power generation with the highest variable cost is LNG >> coal >> nuclear power >> hydropower >> solar power. Since hydropower cannot be used when water is scarce, renewable energy such as solar power and wind power is lower than the variable cost of nuclear power plants. Until now, no power generation source was lower than the variable cost of nuclear power plants, but a strange power source was created.

08. So what... there's a solution. If there's no solution, I don't even write. How do I solve it?

09. The data center should be sent to the side of the nuclear power plant. The data center is a typical constant power consumption agent. The power consumption of the data center is increasing tremendously. This is because of artificial intelligence, and Nvidia GPGPU needs GW-class power to learn data.

10. Currently, dozens of MW data centers are hundreds of megawatts, and IDC will need an Internet data center that uses GW power in the future. Large-capacity Internet data centers can attract the U.S. and European data learning industries if they go next to nuclear power plants.

11. Data center expansion is also a problem in the United States. In the United States, using GW-class power is also creating a serious problem. Even in California, electricity remains thanks to solar power during the day and is insufficient at night. However, if the data center consumes power at night at GW-class, it is not power that ESS can cover.

12. The time that solar power can supply during the day is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The rest of the time has to be supplied with electricity from somewhere. It has to be blocked by mobilizing all the nuclear power plants, LNG, and hydro ESS.

13. In Korea, data centers in the U.S. can handle the work of data centers during the daytime. If the optical cable between the U.S. and Korea is connected, data centers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google can handle the work in Korea in the middle of the night.

14. It is possible because the earth is round. The time difference is not disadvantageous with the United States. If the GW-class data center next to the nuclear power plant at night uses the electricity generated by the nuclear power plant, there is nothing more to be desired.

15. The nuclear power plant is next to the sea. It's because of the cooling water, but this cooling water can also be used to cool the data center, killing two birds with one stone. It's advantageous to configure water-cooled servers these days because it's next to the sea.

16. Nuclear power plants are usually built in pairs for construction efficiency. Each cluster of nuclear power plants generates 2-8 GW of electricity because there is a separate nuclear power generation area. Naturally, the area around nuclear power plants is rural or quiet. No power plants are built in the city center. There is no need to consume 2-8 GW in the countryside.

17. Then, 2-10 GW must be transmitted to cities and factories using expensive transmission lines, but even with a 153KV power line, dozens of strands must be connected and hundreds of kilometers must be sent to the city. The amount of electromagnetic waves generated is enormous and enormous, so energy is emitted enough to turn on a fluorescent lamp that is turned off at night.

18. It is said that it is a mane's hideous thing that gets cancer from electromagnetic waves. It is also buried underground, and the cost is no joke. If a GW-class data center is next to a nuclear power plant, the power generation area consumes power without the need for power transmission, so there is room for the entire power transmission grid.

19. This is important.

20. The nation needs to keep its electricity generated at 220V or 380V to homes or companies without power outages 24 hours and 3600 seconds a year, but if it wants to transmit power from nuclear power plants made in Uljin or Yeonggwang to Seoul or Busan, it will eat up all the power lines.

21. This is why solar power cannot be expanded. In other words, solar power is developed in northern Gyeonggi Province, Honam, Gyeongsang and Gangwon provinces, and can afford to transmit electricity to cities such as Pyeongtaek, Cheonan and Yongin, new semiconductor complexes.

22. But no one wants to move the data center from Seoul's main point like Mokdong to an area like Samcheok, Uljin. Would you move?

23. This problem should be solved with differential power rates. If you move into a data center cluster next to a nuclear power plant, you will have to pay 30% of the power rate