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BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months ago

Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power

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Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power

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BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months ago
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Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power — huge installations are idle because Santa Clara can't cope with surging electricity demands
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Two major facilities built for AI-era workloads remain unpowered while the city races to expand its electricity supply.
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  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Ed Zitron is really calling these shots way earlier than mainstream press. He was mentioning this like a month ago, how there just isn’t enough power/generators to power these 1GW data centers. The ones in the article are like 50MW lmao

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    Surely, our world-class modern power infrastructure will allow us to compete with China on AI

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    the last company i worked for needed another rack in a colo space, which the datacenter we were in had available, except they had no more power available.

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    the missing chapter in Abundance

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    Just get 10000 people on generator bikes on-prem

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      It would be way better for the environment than whatever they end up actually deploying.

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