A big power station of any type is ~1GW. Nuclear is slow to build, so I'd have to guess natural gas.

gpm 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The US is adding significantly more solar, and slightly more wind, than natural gas every year. This doesn't have to be placed where people already are, but can be placed where energy is the cheapest, which favours solar and wind substantially more than gas (or nuclear).

The reasonable (cost effective, can be done quickly) thing to do is put this wherever you can generate solar + wind the most reliably, build out a giant battery bank, and use the grid as a backup generator. Over time build a better and better connection to the grid to sell excess energy.

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Workaccount2 4 days ago | parent [-]

Trump is personally and vindictively against green energy.

He wants coal and gas.

	▲	ViscountPenguin 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		When the price of gas is so much higher than solar, that hardly matters. No reason the data centre have to be in the US.

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happosai 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It should be illegal to build that much fossil fuel powerplants to just train LLMs.

The platant disregard of global warming by AI investors is truly repulsive.

	▲	ETH_start 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Keep in mind that the industrial processes that consume fossil fuel also contribute to quality of life in various ways. Improvements in emergency response and early detection infrastructure alone have resulted in deaths from extreme weather events reaching record low levels. Poverty as a whole has seen record-breaking decreases over the last 30 years. So there are other factors to weigh besides how much contributes to CO2 emissions.