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by pylua 8 days ago
Even for wind or solar ?
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LOL. You’d need thousands of acres of solar panels to provide power for a single data center. Of course the exact area needed depends on what part of the world you’re in, but are you going to put up with 4 square miles of solar panels in your city? That’s a square two miles on a side, or 3.4km×3.4km. Or are you going to let them install hundreds of wind turbines in your neighborhood?
Yes. Don’t build the data center unless you can support that. What’s so strange about it?