⛩️Llama Dojo

Powerplant - AI Data Center

North of SF, California

AI training (and fine-tuning) requires concentrated compute and power. The solar peak increasingly provides this power in excess, but needs storage.

We found a site with hundreds of megawatts of geothermal power and hundreds of megawatts of excess transmission capacity available to absorb excess watts to be stored.

The Geysers, California

650+ MW Geothermal

The world's largest producing geothermal plant, 2 hrs from SF

2 Gigawatts,

Transmission

Increasingly low, zero, or negative price solar power during the mid-day

Next gen GPU cabinets use liquid cooling to achieve previously unattainable power and compute densities.

120 kW / cabinet

2.4 MW cluster

...additionally, this heat is useful

To replenish the natural reservoir of water as it is being extracted as hot steam, more than 75,000,000 liters per day of cold treated wastewater is injected into the The Geysers, California, a "hot dry reservoir" the world's most productive geothermal field.

if this injected water were 50 C warmer, heat extraction as steam could be about 10% more efficient.

The liquid cooling reduces datacenter capex and the recovered heat increases longterm geothermal production

With increasing frequency and intensity, cheap solar power floods the western electric grid in the midday, driving electricity to low, zero, or actually negative prices. That's right, you can be paid to take energy.

The geothermal site is supplied with hundreds of megawatts of excess transmission capacity, a legacy of when the plants in the field had more steam, and more output.

We propose to store as much of this power as possible in hydrogen, and discharge it via lightcells to provide 24/7 power to an AI datacenter.

Colocating energy source, storage, and demand has great benefits, especially when the grid interconnection is a bottleneck, as it is now. This bottleneck is intensifying.

$200/kW month, $0.08 kwhe.

Competitive with Santa Clara (with availability!)

(these rates are more than >$0.30 kwhe all in, a premium energy product)

Because AI power available in sufficient concentrations is scarce, it's valuable enough to be economically produceable early in the learning curve for hydrogen / lightcell energy.

Hence our interest in developing this project: it is bootstrapping an ideal customer for us.

There are additional opportunities for powerplant - ai data centers wherever there is a significant underutilized transmission resource, such as at a closed coal or nuclear plant, and a grid-wide solar peak, and in various locations with other geothermal and or water resources, and wherever there is a large energy resource, such as solar, that is awaiting grid interconnection -- you build excess solar and store hydrogen overnight and a little extra.

China is ahead of the west on solar energy abundance.

Left, Fujian province.
Bottom. Xinjiang province.

We agree with Casey Handmer the incredible wealth of incredibly cheap solar panels is the new law of nature. We're going to terraform the planet with solar panels, and it's going to provide practically limitless daytime excess energy, as long as you are connected to it.

Lightcell proposes to soak up that solar excess as cheap hydrogen, which can be tapped directly by our lightcell generator to turn into electricity via light, or turned into methane for fuel.

We'll do this to balance the whole grid someday, but we'll bootstrap our way there by providing power as an AI data center, as well as services and training software. We expect that Meta's Llama and other open source releases such as Mistral will provide a durable foundation that can be fine-tuned in combination with other software to provide incredible software. We think this -- becoming the world's foremost sustainable energy Llama Dojo will be an excellent business to launch our solid state electric generator at powerplant scale

lightcell energy develops a lightcell generator which converts fuel into light into electricity by cycling sodium chloride -- salt -- into a flame. the salt emits bright yellow light in the 10s of suns, which is efficiently and directly converted into electric current by PV cells -- like solar cells, but optimized for this intense yellow light.

follow us on lightcellenergy.com

and X.com/lightcellenergy,

and our CEO and inventor Danielle Fong at X.com/daniellefong