Re:Proposed data centre will release 23 Hiroshima atomic bom...
by 8note on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:19PM
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it would be apt if it was "fun fact, despite being incredibly destructive, a nuclear bomb doesnt leave much waste heat" but also a non-sequitur.
a really obvious electricity in, waste heat out is aluminum smelting in quebec. at ~12GWh a day for the biggest ones, this would come out at a similar scale, but make clear that the data center industry in alberta produces far less waste heat than the aluminum industry in quebec, and we should start looking to shutter all those smelters for wasting too much power
bringing up nuclear bombs when the heat output of a nuclear bomb isnt what people are familiar with is intentionally misleading. it also elicits a "cool, this thing can survive 20 nuclear blasts a day?" response which is pretty obviously not intended and isnt true
a really obvious electricity in, waste heat out is aluminum smelting in quebec. at ~12GWh a day for the biggest ones, this would come out at a similar scale, but make clear that the data center industry in alberta produces far less waste heat than the aluminum industry in quebec, and we should start looking to shutter all those smelters for wasting too much power
bringing up nuclear bombs when the heat output of a nuclear bomb isnt what people are familiar with is intentionally misleading. it also elicits a "cool, this thing can survive 20 nuclear blasts a day?" response which is pretty obviously not intended and isnt true