| ▲ | HDThoreaun 4 days ago |
| Build this thing in the middle of the desert and you would need around 100 sq mile of solar panels + a fuck load of batteries for it to be energy independent. The solar farm would be around $10 billion which is probably far less than the gpus cost |
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| ▲ | xnx 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Dissipating 10GW of heat is also a challenge in a sunny, hot, dry environment. |
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| ▲ | udkl 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| $10 billion is small change compare to the estimated all-inclusive cost of $10 billion for EACH 500MW data center ... $200 billion for 10GW. |
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| ▲ | boringg 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Won't get you the necessary 4 9's uptime and energy sadly. Im still 100% for this -- but need another model for energy delivery. |
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| ▲ | newyankee 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 100 sq km should suffice |
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| ▲ | ecshafer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | bryanlarsen 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 100 square miles is small in the American southwest. And a solar farm would disrupt the ecosystem much less than many other land uses. Adding shade and cover will benefit many species. | | |
| ▲ | ecshafer 4 days ago | parent [-] | | A few nuclear power plants have a much smaller environmental impact. | | |
| ▲ | bryanlarsen 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Burning 10GW of fossil fuels for 20 years while waiting for the nuclear plants to finish building will do far more damage to the environment than 100 square miles of shade in the desert. |
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| ▲ | HDThoreaun 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is a man's world | |
| ▲ | retr0rocket 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [dead] | |
| ▲ | Aeolun 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | On sand? | |
| ▲ | jonfromsf 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Environmentalists are just against progress. A few desert species going extinct is not a big deal. It's an arid wasteland. When we eventually terraform it (with desalinated water from solar / fusion) those species are going to die out anyway. | | |
| ▲ | samtp 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > Environmentalists are just against progress Just pure anti-life on earth talk | |
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