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Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel

the Kris

Re: Can someone do the math for me please?

Doing the math:

Most likely they will be using LiFePO4 batteries which have lowest cost per capacity and have the longest lifetime. Under optimal use (e.g. 20%<->80%) we see 10000 cycle lifetime.

So if they were charged and discharged every day between 20% and 80%, they would last 45 years.

(45 years * 365 days * 60% cycle => 9855 cycles)

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