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No, because that's per datacenter, not per datacenter-acre. I'll give them partial credit for trying, but a 5-acre 20MW datacenter and a 50-acre 20MW datacente
by yellowapple 4mo ago
No, because that's per datacenter, not per datacenter-acre. I'll give them partial credit for trying, but a 5-acre 20MW datacenter and a 50-acre 20MW datacenter are not going to have equivalent use cases or local impacts, and that'll make measuring those impacts more difficult.
- solid_fuel 4mo agoYour desired unit of measurement is a stupid and pointless one. No one measures data centers by “datacenter-acre”, because what matters is resource consumption not power density. A 20 MW is going to consumer 20 WM of power and require 20 MW of cooling, regardless of how many acres it sits on.
- yellowapple 4mo agoPower density is the exact metric by which datacenters are differentiated between “hyperscalar” (i.e. what most people call “AI datacenters”) v. your run-of-the-mill colocation DC. Also: a flat MW cap per DC is straightforward to game by splitting one big DC into multiple smaller DCs.
- solid_fuel 4mo ago> Power density is the exact metric by which datacenters are differentiated True or not, that is irrelevant. Total regional power demand is what affects consumer prices, not demand density. > Also: a flat MW cap per DC is straightforward to game by splitting one big DC into multiple smaller DCs. "Gaming" regulations like that is called fraud. This is irrelevant either way because the regulation applies per organization, creating subsidiaries to sneak things past won't help.