Kevin is a POS and I really doubt this DataCenter will ever be built. Having said that, this article is also full of fearmongering trash.
”Turn out, it could create a massive heat island capable of devastating the area’s ecology, said Robert Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University.”
An “atom bomb” is not a standard unit of measurement. It’s less than helpful.
What are the chances the people of Utah work together to stop it and reverse it from being built?
Dont know how it is overall in Utah currently.
Would have to be a big problem to focus on by Salt Lake City people and neighboring states assisting
0.1%
Can’t be that low
ok, 5%.
Come on skipper we need more power than that!!! /s haha
I was just joking earlier though for previous comment. Hopefully there is a good chance over there but only time will tell
I don’t know who Kevin is, so I looked at his Wikipedia page and I’m still none the wiser what he’s actually done to “earn” all that money. Looks like a serial grifter.
Only if we can strap him to the heat sinks. 🍽️
Strangely enough, I got kevin oleary confused with this guy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
This is never getting built
They should really try boiling some water with that waste heat, maybe make it spin a turbine or two.
They should try moving to a place with fresh water and stop draining a pool of salt, if they have to generate this heat for fucking useful reason.
Don’t give them ideas, otherwise O’Leary will start charging the locals a ‘Luxury Geothermal Subscription’ just to stand near the exhaust vent.
“neothermal”
But at least when I have to write a professional sounding email I can shut off my brain and make the computer cluster do it!
I propose a hyperscale billionaire cooking center where we drive the heat of 23 atom bombs directly up Kevin’s ass.
Why does this guy have to be such a massive piece of shit.
Well he’s got nothing else to offer.
Because he floated to the top. Better question is why do we allow such massive pieces of shit to accumulate in the first place?
generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.
Americans will do anything but use the metric system.
Listen guy, maybe you haven’t noticed, but we have some serious fuckery we are trying to deal with here. While I agree that metric is a more logical system. We’re trying to get a grip while everything around us is crumbling. Switching to metric is in like volume 17 of our todo list right now, sandwiched between end daylight savings time and making the my pillow guy eat a sock.
9GW is first. That’s metric. The other number is to give an estimate that is more relatable.
Yeah, who doesn’t know the heat of an atom bomb? (which famously can vary by 4 orders of magnitude)
which famously can vary by 4 orders of magnitude
That’s why “Hiroshima” is now a unit. We’re lucky “Tsar Bomba” isn’t.
Well, everyone knows it’s at least a lot. That’s the point. Most people don’t know what 9GW means, in terms of heat. Even a small nuclear bomb it’s enough to vaporized a large area. This tells even the least informed person that it’s an amount of energy that should be concerning.
At least in this case it gets across the truly stupid amount of energy being wasted. As a general rule I think that if you can boil one of the great lakes with your daily thermal output you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
Is that a realistic Approximation of energy usage? This seems a lot to me, even over the span of one day
Definitely off by a few orders of magnitude.
17gw is about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb - 63 terajoules is 17 GWh and the 9GW data centre produces at least 16GWs of heat. Pretty scary when looked at like that.
Not that it would matter for this conversation, but at hyperscalers levels, the energy required for mechanical loads is under 20% of the compute load. Wouldn’t surprise me if ~10% can be achieved at multi GW scale. Thus about 11GW total energy.
Does “9GW data center” not mean “a data center that consumes 9GW of power”?
Or is it “9GW of computers + 5GW of cooling + something”?9GW should be the compute load goal, to which you need to add the mechanical and administrative loads. At higher scales they gain significant efficiencies which translates to market advantages.
I still don’t quite understand. Can I get a conversion into how many hotdogs the heat could cook?
Let’s assume Costco size hot dogs (1/4 lb, or 0.11 kg), with an internal temp increase from fridge temperatures (37 F, or 276 K) to 165 F (347 K). Let’s also assume the heat capacity of the hot dog is about 3000 J/kg*K. To heat up a single hot dog takes this much energy:
q=mc*deltaT => q=(0.11 kg)*(3000 J/kg*K)*(347K-276K)=23,430 J of energy.
The heat capacity here is 9GW. That is 9 gigajoules of energy per second, or 9 billion joules every second. Divide this by the number of joules to cook each hot dog gets us the number of hot dogs that could be cooked every second:
9,000,000,000/23,430=384,123 hot dogs/second
With this hot dogs per second figure, we can find how long this energy source would take to feed the entire US population a Costco hot dog.
342,000,000 people/384,123 hot dogs per sec=890 seconds
Converting this to minutes:
890/60=14.8 minutes
So, this source of energy could feed the entire population of the US a Costco hot dog in less than 15 minutes if properly harnessed.
Finally someone speaking english.
The math you just did terrifies me and I have no way of verifying it, so I’ll just say good job and leave it at that.
So if she weighs the same as a duck… then she’s made of wood…
and therefore…
A WITCH!! BURN HER!!
I think it’s also important to have a hotdogs per day figure, and the math from here is super simple, so I can do it.
384,1236060*24 = 33,188,227,200 hot dogs per day.
Well, there you go, free lunch for every schoolkid. Silver lining.
More than two
“How many hot dogs a day? Well, gosh, I don’t know. Some days it’s just two. Other days…it could be up to, and I’m just ball parking here you understand, it could be…up to seven?”
“So…seven hot dogs a day.”
Depends how well done you like them.
A lot
I wonder how many football fields long this thing is?
Well… It’s 9GW of waste heat. Same as the energy supply.
No, 9GW of electricity, and they claim 16GW total. With a greater than 50% efficient gas plant.
Probably like 8GW of waste heat, and 1GW of infrasound
Ok, but that will still need to be handled otherwise it’ll shake the building to it’s knees.
They just pump it outside of the environment
…into another environment?
No, outside of the environment.
There’s nothing out there but birds, (poor)people and 1 gigawatt of infrasound.
This is USica, it doesn’t matter where you’re pumping it, just that it’s out of where you’re pumping it from. Doesn’t really even matter what you’re pumping, USians gotta pump something.
Don’t know if you’re trying an obscure reference to the shadoks, an absurd french tv cartoon from 1968
How many is that, in bananas? Or school buses?
Sometimes you have to cater to the lowest common denominator (the AI booster).
Kevin o Leary can kiss the whitest party of my ass.
For the record my whole ass is pretty white.
He can kiss the brownest part of mine. And my ass in also pretty white.
Kevin O’Leary is a parasite
He’s already on The List.
All the shark tankers are.
Didn’t he and his wife also killed someone while driving their boat drunk?
It was more some idiots decided to start gaze at night and illegally turned off their boat lights. Nothing sadder than douche on douche violence.
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