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Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day. (www.sltrib.com)
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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

17gw of heat is both under and over estimate.

3,600 of those industrial-scale generators to power Stratos

Caterpillar 2.5mw generators have maximum efficiency of 45%, and so 19gw is peak thermal power. that is roughly 26 hiroshimas per day.

It's an over estimate because datacenter cpu/gpu capacity utilization is on average under 10%. It could still produce all that power for export to trap all that heat in a valley.