‘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.
  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day 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·
      21 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·
      22 hours ago

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