alt Hacker NewsI would have gone with "Utah datacenter power use equivalent to 16 Back to the Future DeLorean's".
What is the standard "atomic bomb" unit these days?
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cratermoon • today at 4:10 AM
Typically, a Fat Man design as tested at White Sands and used on Nagasaki, or 21 kilotons, sometimes 15 kilotons when Hiroshima is used for comparison, as in the HBO Chernobyl miniseries.
> For a pop culture comparison, the fictional DeLorean time machine in “Back to the Future” required 1.21 gigawatts to power the flux capacitor for Marty McFly to time-travel.
This is an absolutely meaningless statistic. It's pretty hard to believe that it would be included in an otherwise informative article.