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		londons_explore on July 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toshiba and WD NAND Production Hit by Power Outage... Gas turbine power plants aren't that expensive... Lots of sites use them for backup power and simultaneously use them as regular power plants selling power back to the grid.

jsjohnst on July 1, 2019 [–]

I was estimating to the very high side to make a point. One can easily get 10MW in the 500k-1M USD range, but I did see some very elaborate setups peaking out near $5M so went with that. Heck, I recently saw some on Alibaba for $100k, but I highly doubt Toshiba/WD would buy from there.

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