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Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by digdugdirk on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:49PM (#42701910)
That's actually a wildly short timeframe for a large political plan like this. Going from idea to breaking ground on a massive infrastructure project in a calendar year? It'll be interesting to see if this turns into a political/legal quagmire or not, since it's ostensibly aligned with both parties (donors) interests.
Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by michaelt on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:14PM (#42703180)
Depends on the implementation details.

If you could identify, say, a defunct aluminium smelting plant?

It'll probably have access to 30 megawatts of power. You'd have to give nvidia quite a lot of money get enough GPUs to consume that.

Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by CapricornNoble on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:04PM (#42702121)
Agreed, it seems wildly optimistic to me. I was working at a military installation command last year and it would often take 6 months just to survey some existing buildings for renovation + repurposing and trying to get those plans approved. Stuff like "repaint these walls, mitigate mold, and install sub-divided chain-link fence in this warehouse" was busting our timelines. I'm assuming that just getting the paperwork right for a Federal government construction project is an equally-huge lift.
Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by tsunamifury on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:18PM (#42703242)
The contracts will go to Google and Amazon who can lay down a Data center in months