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The largest geothermal plant in the world is only 1.5GW, in the United States, which is over double all the plants combined in Iceland. The second largest is 1/
by nomel 4mo ago
The largest geothermal plant in the world is only 1.5GW, in the United States, which is over double all the plants combined in Iceland. The second largest is 1/3 that, in Mexico. [1]
There is no "ubiquitous" geothermal where there also high power usage. Data centers have to go where power is, not can be.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geothermal_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geothermal_power_stati...
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