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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74351191

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

On the order of 20MW continuous draw, saved you the math.

That's pretty small for an industrial load and some hyperscale data-centers are in the 500MW scale.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu -1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Metric motherfucker, do you speak it?

[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So is m - milli and M - mega. Which the poster above does not seem to understand.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No, I understand. Let me capitalize it for you so you understand: 500MW?????

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/microsoft-fairwater-atlanta

A bunch of the under-construction sites are set to be GW consumers as well.