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It'd have to be a solar farm 3 kilometers on each side to meet a 400 megawatt load (with battery storage). If you take the entire block xAI colossus is on—it's
by perihelions 1y ago
It'd have to be a solar farm 3 kilometers on each side to meet a 400 megawatt load (with battery storage). If you take the entire block xAI colossus is on—it's 1.2 by 1.6 km—cut down all those trees, raze the elementary school (the one being smogged right now—did anyone notice there was a school right next to it?)—that, times five, is what you'd actually need.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/xai+colossus https://www.google.com/maps/search/xai+colossus
The end goal is 2,000 megawatts for this datacenter, so multiply that by five again.
This CEO founded a solar power company, and a battery-storage company as well—I'm very certain he considered the all-solar option carefully, and rejected it for actual technical reasons; not vibes.
- blitzar 1y ago> all-solar option Who said it needed to be "all solar". Obvious anyone with a brain would have noticed it is dark at night and there would be no power production so "all solar" is litterally impossible.