‘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.
  • apftwb@lemmy.world
    101·
    20 hours ago

    Waste heat and electricity usage are the same. Atom bombs are not SI units.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Please use feet somehow, that’s the only way it’s going to be understood around these parts.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 day ago

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

    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
      12·
      20 hours ago

      And this is why we love Canada. Our president threatens to overthrow their government but they still apologize for the existence of one douchebag. You’re welcome to crash on my couch during your next trip down to burn the White House.

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      22 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
        4·
        19 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
        4·
        20 hours ago

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

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 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.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      7·
      22 hours ago

      Desert land is cheap and we’ve wasted billions on subsidized public water infrastructure. So it’s entirely rational from their perspective.