Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips
by Retric on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:29PM
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The point is aggregate demand is not that difficult to deal with, just look at say New York City.
Large data centers are huge building, the density is very much limited by heat issues and while the building might get bigger the power demand per square foot does not. We can move lots of power through very small areas consider individual steam turbines are up at 600 MW.
Even if we start talking about GW for a single datacenter, the single Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is already 8GW.
But I’m not sure I understand your point. I look Google Maps images of the Wenatchee Alcoa works and the Google Data center in the Dalles and they seem order-of-magnitude the same size to my eyeballs.
You seem to think I don’t appreciate how much energy aluminum smelting requires - I do. But imagine the heating element of your aluminum crucible broken into a million pieces, each piece with a cooling system to keep its temperature down. That’s a data center.