Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by sigmoid10 on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:53AM
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At this point we have to be glad it's not coal. After all we have a president that just passed an executive order to foster the "Beautiful Clean Coal Industry"
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by blibble on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:07AM
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> At this point we have to be glad it's not coal.
it will be if the coal price drops far enough
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by gadders on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:27AM
(#44531359)
It's either that or nuclear.
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by progbits on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:24AM
(#44531860)
You say that as if nuclear was bad?
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by gadders on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:53AM
(#44532178)
Not at all. I think it's probably the best option if you want guaranteed electricity.
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by bflesch on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:17AM
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False equivalence bias
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by gadders on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:58AM
(#44532224)
Dunning–Kruger effect
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by lordswork on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:44AM
(#44531481)
Far better than xAI's data center being powered by mobile Diesel generators
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by perihelions on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:35AM
(#44531967)
xAI is natural gas, not diesel.
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by polski-g on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:11AM
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Decades of lies about nuclear has its downsides.
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by thegreatpeter on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:44AM
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For something to be considered "sad", there needs to be an available, practical alternative. What should they have chosen instead?
Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized...
by joelthelion on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:05AM
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We could not build new data centers and focus on fixing the real issues instead.
We could always revisit this decision once clean power is actually available.
Sad, but expected.