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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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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For comparison, a blast furnace making steel uses on the order of 3600 GWh/yr and the energy comes primarily from coal.

9Gwh is a high number for a datacenter, but industrial processes use much more and much dirtier energy.

That's also one datacenter and the largest. Whereas there are many, many blast furnaces running all over the world.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

9gw if run 24/7 (capacity utilization is actually low on average in US) is 551.88 twh/year. 1500x. Natural gas is not that much cleaner than coal from co2/ghg warming perspective.