To put this into perspective this datacenter would have the land area of Monaco (740 acres) given assumptions of a 80kW/rack per case.

oezi 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Monaco is so tiny it fits into Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld (a circular park inside the city).

I mean, you're not wrong, but Tempelhofer is also a former airport, so had to be quite big. And since Brexit, Berlin is the biggest city in the EU.

	▲	rhubarbtree 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Paris? I mean, if we are considering the wide area. Otherwise London wouldn’t have been considered the largest.

vessenes 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So, basically a single BYD factory

dguest 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Monaco is 2 km^2 [1].

I'm confused because if I assume each rack takes up 1 square meter I get a much smaller footprint: around 12 hectares or 17 football fields.

And that assumes that the installation is one floor. I don't know much about data centers but I would have thought they'd stack them a bit.

Am I the only person who had to look up how big Monaco was?

	▲	zitterbewegung 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		My ChatGPT calculation is below. ChatGPT is factoring in the actually size of building and a campus and it have the range of 340 to 740 acres. https://chatgpt.com/share/68d195ff-3528-8004-8418-ec462b1433...

ahmeneeroe-v2 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To put Monaco in perspective, the US could fit 4.8M Monacos

	▲	mhb 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		To put Rhode Island in perspective, it would hold 1,340 Monacos. https://www.comparea.org/MCO+US_RI

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