alt Hacker NewsThat's what they should do. Datacenters don't need to be in anyone's backyard. The US has vast amounts of unused land as well as urban brownfields that are sitting empty. Put them there.
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giancarlostoro • yesterday at 6:26 PM
Heck, abandoned means those power generators are ripe for it, and that power plant you want to build? You've got the room!
neutronicus • yesterday at 5:43 PM
You're not getting it into an urban brownfield unless it comes with price controls on energy.
I live amongst the urban brownfields of Baltimore and our politicians are under tons of pressure to stop data center projects (and to tar and feather utility executives).
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> That's what they should do. Datacenters don't need to be in anyone's backyard.
at least in texas that's what they are doing, building them out in the middle of nowhere or close to the middle of nowhere. The issue that I keep seeing pop up is behind the meter power generation ( gas turbines ) is hitting roadblock after roadblock. There just aren't very many and GE is scaling up but i mean it's not like adding RAM in AWS, it's going to take half a decade to see the increased inventory to buy one let alone onsite and operational.
"...demand from utilities, data centers and other power users continues to stretch manufacturing schedules into the next decade."
https://www.compressortech2.com/news/ge-vernova-raises-gas-t...
some are resorting to using ocean liner engines to generate electricity.
"That naturally explains the recent order flow into large reciprocating engines. In April, the Finnish vessel engine manufacturer Wärtsilä Oyj Abp announced a 790 MW off-grid power solution for a new Texas data centre facility,"
https://globalalphacapital.cclgroup.com/insight/gacm-from-se...