• Resplendent606@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think people understand just how much power it would’ve consumed. 600MW is about the equivalent of 180,000 homes. It would also use massive amounts of water. In the desert. In Arizona. These things should not exist anywhere, but especially in places with very limited water.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      To put that into perspective, Tucson Electric Power has a generating capacity of 3,101MW. So at 600MW, that facility alone would be nearly 20% of their current capacity.

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    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Getting the A.I. datacenters now we need to kick the almond and dubai alfalfa farms in the desert…but a victory is a victory.