‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake
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Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.

waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day

That actually makes the data complex a 16 gigawatt thermal load project, the “equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day,” Davies said.

Those bombs would have about 14kt tnt equivalent each. tnt has about 4.18MJ/kg, so 4.18TJ/kt. 16GW over a day is 1.5PJ, so we have 330 kt per day.

This comparison will surely be useful to all designers of orion-drive style nuclear combustion power-plants.

  • anyhow2503@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    15 小时前

    That’s nothing compared to the 40GW ludicrousscale datacenter I’m proposing. To put it into perspective: that’s more than 4 O’Learycenters. Now, who wants in? 😎

  • Redjard@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    7·
    22 小时前

    Incidentally, tnt is about a tenth the energy density of the densest hydrocarbons, so this should take at least 30 thousand tons of oil or gas per day. And emit CO₂ on that scale. Probably more.