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> However, given that diesel generators sometimes power buildings How much power do you think a building typically draws? To give a few examples for scale: -
by jsjohnst 7y ago
> However, given that diesel generators sometimes power buildings
How much power do you think a building typically draws?
To give a few examples for scale:
- typical U.S. home draws between 1KW to 25KW of electricity.
- typical U.S. large shopping mall around 1MW
- typical large data center with tens of thousands of servers + cooling is in the 5 to 15MW range
As a bonus: a fully loaded 747 weighing 400 tons on takeoff is around 90MW (aka 120,000HP).
And to circle back to the diesel generator, while size can very, they are fairly commonly around 1,000 - 1,500hp which translate to around 1MW.