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We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition
- harvey9 3mo agoThere's interesting sociological analysis and commentary here but I felt the maps and numbers part was ironically just 'small data' and stats for their own sake.
- reddozen 3mo agoWhy doesn't Amazon buy a county similar to what Walt Disney did in Florida.
- sceadu 3mo agoby concentrating the load into a single location like that, you would likely overload the transmission system at that location and trigger a ton of system upgrades. so they would likely need to build their own generation and still probably upgrade lines if they just took over a county.
- reddozen 3mo agoWell, yes. That's exactly what Disney did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Energy_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Energy_Services