CNN — This project cuts emissions by putting data centers inside wind turbines

When there's more electricity being generated than people are consuming, you can't store it, there's no big batteries – so you just have to throw it away; that's curtailment.

— Asim Hussain

In the engineering space, we're so disconnected from nature. Whereas with this project, you're connected with wind fully, and you're trying to engineer solutions that are aligned with nature and work with nature.

— Asim Hussain

CNN asked me to weigh in on windCORES — a project that puts data centres inside wind turbines to run compute straight off renewable energy. I wasn’t involved in building it, but I think it’s a genuinely clever way to use electricity that would otherwise be curtailed and thrown away.

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