AI Datacenters Bypass Grid with On-site Power, Rely on Model Routing for Uptime
shensi · x · 2026-08-21
Connecting new AI datacenters to the grid now takes years, so the industry is building sites next to their own power sources using gas turbines and solar. This sacrifices uptime, but the trade-off works due to model routing with fallback mechanisms. Tools like Merge Gateway provide access to all LLMs through a single API with intelligent routing to support this.
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