sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoKevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.www.sltrib.comexternal-linkmessage-square164linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkKevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.www.sltrib.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square164linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoFor comparison, a blast furnace making steel uses on the order of 3600 GWh/yr and the energy comes primarily from coal. 9Gwh is a high number for a datacenter, but industrial processes use much more and much dirtier energy. That’s also one datacenter and the largest. Whereas there are many, many blast furnaces running all over the world.
For comparison, a blast furnace making steel uses on the order of 3600 GWh/yr and the energy comes primarily from coal.
9Gwh is a high number for a datacenter, but industrial processes use much more and much dirtier energy.
That’s also one datacenter and the largest. Whereas there are many, many blast furnaces running all over the world.