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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)

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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

At that scale you aren't using batteries, you are pumping water into a hydroelectric dam.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago*

At this scale everything is bonkers. The hoover damn is 2GW.

That severely limits where you can place it, probably more than solar. Now you need all that extra water, and height differential that can be at that scale.

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