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@jima @Ardubal @petergleick is Microsoft getting power rates locked in at a specific rate for 20 years? Because that alone could be enough to drive this deal. Renewables can trend to be cheaper for the producer* but that doesn't mean the customer is getting cheaper rates.
* e.g., solar/wind *can* be cheaper than coal/natgas and certainly will be, but I don't know if that calculation ever includes the cost of energy storage so a consumer like a datacenter can still have clean power during the off-peak time periods where generation is not possible