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Did I miss the part where they mention the 10 large nuclear plants needed to power this new operation? Where's all the power coming from for this?
by TheRealGL 1y ago
Did I miss the part where they mention the 10 large nuclear plants needed to power this new operation? Where's all the power coming from for this?
- HDThoreaun 1y agoBuild this thing in the middle of the desert and you would need around 100 sq mile of solar panels + a fuck load of batteries for it to be energy independent. The solar farm would be around $10 billion which is probably far less than the gpus cost
- ecshafer 1y ago[flagged]
- Aeolun 1y agoOn sand?
- HDThoreaun 1y agoThis is a man's world
- retr0rocket 1y ago[dead]
- jonfromsf 1y agoEnvironmentalists are just against progress. A few desert species going extinct is not a big deal. It's an arid wasteland. When we eventually terraform it (with desalinated water from solar / fusion) those species are going to die out anyway.
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- samtp 1y ago> Environmentalists are just against progress Just pure anti-life on earth talk
- bryanlarsen 1y ago100 square miles is small in the American southwest. And a solar farm would disrupt the ecosystem much less than many other land uses. Adding shade and cover will benefit many species.
- ecshafer 1y agoA few nuclear power plants have a much smaller environmental impact.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoBurning 10GW of fossil fuels for 20 years while waiting for the nuclear plants to finish building will do far more damage to the environment than 100 square miles of shade in the desert.
- xnx 1y agoDissipating 10GW of heat is also a challenge in a sunny, hot, dry environment.
- boringg 1y agoWon't get you the necessary 4 9's uptime and energy sadly. Im still 100% for this -- but need another model for energy delivery.
- newyankee 1y ago100 sq km should suffice
- udkl 1y ago$10 billion is small change compare to the estimated all-inclusive cost of $10 billion for EACH 500MW data center ... $200 billion for 10GW.
- catigula 1y agoConsumer electric grids.
- delfinom 1y agoYep. Consumers are screwed and $500/month electric bills are coming for the average consumer within a year or two. We do not have the electricity available for this.
- leptons 1y agoI'm pretty average, living in a small home, and my electric bill is already >$500/mo in the summer, and that's with the A/C set at 76F during the day.
- thorncorona 1y agoWhere do you live? How old is your house? 500 is insane.
- catigula 1y agoI don't expect him to tell you where he lives but my bill EXPLODED recently due to what I now know is data center demand.
- t0mas88 1y agoHow many kWh is that? At those amounts solar panels seem like a no-brainer business case?
- davis 1y agoExactly this. This is essentially a new consumer tax in your electrical bill. The buildout of the electrical grid is being put on consumers essentially as a monthly tax with the increase in electrical costs. Everyone in the country is paying for the grid infrastructure to power these data centers owned by trillion dollar companies who aren't paying for their needs.
- nutjob2 1y agoAlso, the fact they they announce not how much computing power they are going to deploy but rather how much electricity it's going to use (as if power usage is a useful measurement of processing power) is kind of gross. "Good news everybody, your power bills are going up and your creaking, chronically underfunded infrastructure is even closer to collapse!"
- hoosieree 1y agoAlso water. You will be rationed, OpenAI will not. https://www.newstarget.com/2025-08-02-texas-ai-data-centers-water-drought-limits.html https://www.newstarget.com/2025-08-02-texas-ai-data-centers-...
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- nitwit005 1y agoI assumed this headline was not aimed at the public, but at some utility they want to convince to expand capacity. Otherwise, bragging about future power consumption seems a bit perplexing.
- Ianjit 1y agoOr to assuage investors participating in the OpenAI secondary on the issue of cash burn.