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New AI Data Center Is So Huge That It'll Generate the Heat of 23 Atomic Bombs Every Single Day (futurism.com)
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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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[–] 21 points 3 days ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    500mw????

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Metric motherfucker, do you speak it?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (4 children)

    Watts are metric.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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