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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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[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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.