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I was more worried by the 600kW power requirement... that's 200 houses at full load (3kw) in southern europe... which likely means 400 houses at half load. the

• dist-epoch 7mo ago
  Your hometown also has public lightning, water pumps, and probably some other stuff.
• nine_k 7mo ago
  Or it's two 300kW fast EV chargers working together. A typical home just consumes rather little energy, now that LED lighting and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm.
  • znpy 7mo ago
    > now that LED lighting and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm. My brother in Christ, you vastly overestimate southern europe
    • nine_k 7mo ago
      I noticed that Southern Europe often basically ignores both heating and cooling, especially close to the warm sea. But with heat pumps becoming normal in the North and in the US, they become mass-produced, and the prices fall. Same has happened to LED lamps.
  • paganel 7mo ago
    > and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm. We're not all solidly middle-class (especially in Southern and Eastern Europe) and as such we cannot afford those heat pumps. But we'll have to eat the increased energy costs brought by insane server configurations like the ones from the article, so, yeey!!!
  • delusional 7mo ago
    I think the above commentor is reflecting on the total energy use from having a 600KW load running 24/7. I suppose the more interesting observation is the 14 MWh of daily consumption, enough to charge 100 Rivians every day.
• ericd 7mo ago
  That’s surprising, 200 amp 240v service is pretty common in the US.
• nutjob2 7mo ago
  > at full load (3kw) Do you live in a deprived rural village in a very poor country? Because you can't even run a heater and the oven with 3kW.
  • znpy 7mo ago
    No it’s quite the norm actually. Most power contracts give you 3 kwh power supply for residential home. That’s the standard. Bumping to 4.5 or 6kwh must be required explicitly and costs and extra on the base power supply bill