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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:
9GW datacentre approved. I'm trying to get my head round the scale of this. The whole of the UK uses about 40GW of electricity. So this one facility is a quarter of the UK grid. In one location. I had to look up box elder county on Wikipedia. "Its territory includes large tracts of barren desert,". Right, so a datacentre that uses the same amount of electricity as a quarter of the UK. In a fucking desert. And that's before we even consider the CO2 emissions. Yikes.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-gw-utah-data-center-campus-approved