“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”

Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by redblacktree15 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:47PM (#24703275)

As a Lithuanian I can tell that a lot of what Lithuania does with regards to the nuclear plant in Belarus is just fearmongering. The most active critics come from political parties which don't want that plant due to political reasons. Having a nearby nuclear plant effectively controlled by an ally of Putin is not a good thing and I agree with that, but this has nothing to do with safety. It's all political play.

Ironically, a decade ago the same political parties which now oppose the Belarusian nuclear plant wanted to build a nuclear plant here in Lithuania. What's more ironic was that the chosen location was just a couple of kilometers from the border of Belarus.

Personally I'm happy that Belarus managed to build the nuclear plant. In the end of the day, every new nuclear plant results in one less coal power plant somewhere.

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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by trhway on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:55PM (#24703382)

I myself originally from Russia from around those places and have family in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania.

>Belarus managed to build the nuclear plant

it is very easy. You just let Russia/Putin to come and finance and build the power plant. The question of course is why Russia does it.

>every new nuclear plant results in one less coal power plant somewhere.

Germany right near by have excess of renewables which they probably would be happy to sell, and coal these days is out-competed by all other energy sources. So nuclear vs. coal is pretty artificial.

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