AI is exhausting the power grid

Re:AI is exhausting the power grid by baking on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:52PM (#40754214)

Wouldn't it be great if all you had to do to power your 1GW data center would be to build PV solar farms with 5GW peak capacity on the other side of the globe.

BTW, the land for those solar farms would occupy a square 9 miles on a side and cost $16 billion to buy the land in the Northeastern US (if you could find the land to acquire.) Doesn't include the cost of panels or storage.

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Re:AI is exhausting the power grid by bryanlarsen on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:22PM (#40761872)

I know people who own 9 square miles of land. They are very far from being billionaires. 9 square miles is fairly large for a farm, but fairly small for a ranch.

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Re:AI is exhausting the power grid by baking on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:08PM (#40859056)

1. A square 9 miles one a side is not 9 square miles, it is 81 square miles.

2. I was talking about land values in the Northeast US. Not many large ranches there.

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