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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by jeffbee on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:52PM (#30862249)
I seem to recall doing the math on this one and finding that Netherlands’ own vehicle fleet burns the equivalent fuel that this DC would use in a year, every day. It’s a 160MW (peak) data center and Netherlands burns 180000 barrels of oil per day.

This large American company is simply giving the Dutch something on which to focus their own abundant hypocrisy.

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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by hnaccount_rng on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:19AM (#30864685)
But I’d that really a meaningful comparison? For that fuel consumption you get all of normal life. For that added data center noticing will change. In other words: the benefits for the humans aren’t even on the same measurement scale (although I’m a bit skeptical regarding the numbers. Amsterdam is a significant fraction of the Netherlands and I would be surprised if burning fuel would be 3 orders of magnitude more than electricity consumption for a Western European. But I’m also too lazy to do the calculations so …)
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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by jeffbee on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:20AM (#30866341)
Liquid petroleum is a significant component of energy consumption. It can't be ignored for these purposes.

https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/total-energy/to...

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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by hnaccount_rng on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:04AM (#30867987)
I'm not saying it should be ignored. I'm saying I doubt it's a factor of 300 (which you claimed it to be)
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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by lucb1e on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:50PM (#30862626)
That... is actually a crazy perspective. How much time and energy has the media, the politics, the people, especially the locals already spent on this... something about time spent vs. size of the issue.

(FTR I'm Dutch so I see this constantly in news, I'm part of this wasted-time group...)

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