Utah data center: Projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs

phillipseamore

I 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?

WarOnPrivacy

Dr. Rob Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University, prepared the analysis that estimates the energy footprint of the proposed data center is comparable to 40,000 Walmart Supercenters. Other stats: Size = 62mi² https://kutv.com/news/local/proposed-box-elder-data-center-r... Energy usage = 9 Gigawats (Utah uses 4 Gigawatts total) https://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/hundreds-of-utahns-fil... Water usage permitted = 13,000 acre-feet (26k-39k homes worth) https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/box-elder-county/mo...

theamk

The number is "approximately 16 gigawatts" 23 atomic bombs per day does not really tell me much. Both boxer's punch and a 9mm bullet have about 450 J of energy, but the effects are very different. A better comparison would be ~550000 average US houses... or a single medium-sized aluminum smelter factory.

feverzsj

Guess Skynet won't need all these ICBMs.