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.
But for the Stratos project, it will get dumped into the local environment of Hansel Valley, in the same geographic bowl as the power plant. That actually makes the data complex a 16 gigawatt thermal load project, the “equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day,” Davies said.
If this actually happens this wouldn’t be isolated to just the state of Utah? I mean 23 atom bombs a day of heat, seems that would spread out? At the same time, that much heat would melt all the computer and servers. How much water would it need to be cooled?
Which doesn’t matter because Utah doesn’t have enough water to even service this so called data center. Much less the amount it would take to keep that thing cooled.
What?.. This is beyond catastrophically insane…
If this actually happens this wouldn’t be isolated to just the state of Utah? I mean 23 atom bombs a day of heat, seems that would spread out? At the same time, that much heat would melt all the computer and servers. How much water would it need to be cooled?
Which doesn’t matter because Utah doesn’t have enough water to even service this so called data center. Much less the amount it would take to keep that thing cooled.