‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake
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Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.
  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 hours ago

    The funniest part is how obviously this is a pump and dump. There’s no fucking way this guy has $500B+ to blow on this shit, and banks aren’t gonna give it to him because they’re already choking on the debt they have. At best he’ll rob a few investors blind, but there’s no fucking way this gets built. Ever.

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      There’s also a description in real units:

      All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Too bad a gigawatt isn’t a unit of energy, it’s a unit of power. The media gets this wrong almost every single time.

        Edit: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13-18 kilotons of TNT, or 54-75 terajoules of energy. Since the chain reaction of a nuclear fission weapon takes about 1 μs, and 1 watt is 1 joule/s, 54 terajoules released in 1 μs is 5.4 * 10^19 watts of power, or 54 billion gigawatts.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 hours ago

        We should be demanding high efficiency data centers that use the waste heat for other purposes or energy generation.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
    17·
    14 hours ago

    God damn, as a Canadian, im sorry for the existence of Kevin. He is an absolute failure of a human being.