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Total rewrite of my previous reply: There's a 7-million-sqft data center near Reno that claims 650MW capacity. Zuck says his will be 4 million sqft. So that do
by jeffbee 1y ago
Total rewrite of my previous reply:
There's a 7-million-sqft data center near Reno that claims 650MW capacity. Zuck says his will be 4 million sqft. So that doesn't really get us to 5GW unless we're going vertical.
- ericpauley 1y agoTo be fair, datacenter power density has skyrocketed over time: https://www.ramboll.com/en-us/insights/decarbonise-for-net-zero/100-kw-per-rack-data-centers-evolution-power-density https://www.ramboll.com/en-us/insights/decarbonise-for-net-z...
- jeffbee 1y agoThese are being built at the same time, so any trends over time are not in play.
- matt-p 1y agoIf they averaged only 60KW per rack that would be about 1.7Million sqft of 'white floor space' or about 3-4 million sqft gross building size.