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Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors (www.tomshardware.com)

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But will it be a part of the Stargate project?

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

natural gas

Say methane. It's methane. It's the same methane that is like 20x as bad for the environment as gasoline.

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[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

It’s only 95% methane.

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[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

When you burn methane is just a shit ton of CO2 and water vapor left... Along with a trace amount of some other pollutants.

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[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

That's ... ignorant. Yes they are burning methane... Which results in....?

CO2 and water vapor and some various byproducts.

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 point 7 months ago

And leaking through the millions of miles of pipe infrastructure, and releasing things like NOx, SOX, CO, and unburned hydrocarbons when combusted

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