[maccard]

What bakery are you thinking of that pulls the equivalent of a mid sized nuclear power plant? Because you’re off by an order of magnitude I think. (2.2MW maybe)

[linksnapzz]

I suspect the Nabisco plant in Chicago pulls about ~12 million therms worth of natural gas, at 30kwh per therm, that's pretty significant.

[NohatCoder]

You "suspect", but your suspicion comes with a unit of energy, which simply does not make sense in the context. The rest of us are talking about effect.

[linksnapzz]

Shrug

You asked about energy usage; but I have no idea as to how that bakery's natural gas usage affects the people surrounding it.

The smell of freshly baked fig newtons might offset the possible increased cost of gas-per-cubic-foot.

[NohatCoder]

I guess we can go the long way round. How often does the bakery use 12 million therms of natural gas?

[8note]

ok, but like, my stove uses some therms of natural gas, but its not at all comparable in terms of scale to a data center.

what makes this bakery comparable in terms of energy usage and pollution?

[maccard]

A quick google says that the entire city of Chicago draws about 3.4GW - are you saying that one bakery uses over 2/3 of the draw of the entire city?

[tredre3]

No, he is saying that if they were to replace natural gas with electricity, it would use 2.2 gigawatts of electricity.

I don't think the conversion is as straightforward as they claimed. But they're also not claiming that they currently pull gigawatts of electricity.