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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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[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well heat islands are a real thing. If you put 9GW of energy into a data center and dont want to fry the electronics you have to expel that heat somewhere.

Data centers often expel their heat into the surrounding ecology via air con and liquid cooling.

This is selling fear because this data center won’t obey the laws of thermodynamics?