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Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized... by progbits on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:47AM (#44531052)
> The local utility will largely use natural gas to generate the additional electricity needed to power Amazon’s data center

Sad, but expected.

Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized... by sigmoid10 on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:53AM (#44531093)
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 (#44532331)
> 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 (#44531796)
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 (#44531740)
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 (#44532092)
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 (#44532301)
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.

Re:At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized... by TOGoS on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:11AM (#44533043)
Cover the roof in solar panels and use the power to do something useful instead of running bullshit generators.

Or maybe a park with some oak trees and a frisbee golf course idk.