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It's worth noting that this is deal that has never been signed previously. There's a release from DoE about it: https://www.energy.gov/articles/fact-sheet-depa
by nl 2mo ago
It's worth noting that this is deal that has never been signed previously.
There's a release from DoE about it: https://www.energy.gov/articles/fact-sheet-department-energy-ensuring-affordable-energy-access-ohio-while-powering-future https://www.energy.gov/articles/fact-sheet-department-energy...
That's a horrible amount of gas energy generation.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-in-talks-to-lease-10gw-data-center-from-sb-energy-in-ohio/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-in-talks-t... has more details. The whole campus build could be as much as $500B.
Would that be the most expensive single thing ever built? The ISS cost around $150B and is commonly said to be the most expensive single item, but that does include running costs.
- trollbridge 2mo agoYes, if this thing ever gets built, it will set a whole bunch of new records. If it doesn't get built, it will still set a bunch of records; some of them probably quite infamous. It is hard to describe the ridiculous scale they are trying to do there. For comparison, typical electrical demand is 17 GW and peaking to 25, with total generation capacity being 30 GW. That includes us-east-2, which is not a small data centre (consumes probably right around 2 GW, so represents about 10% of the state's power demand). So they're talking about a project that would increase total power consumption in the state over 50%... in addition to building multiple nuclear power plants to fund it. Predicting 2,500 permanent jobs in a county of 27,000 total people, so that's a lot of people moving in.
- KurSix 2mo agoThe permanent jobs number really puts it in perspective. You're not just dropping a giant data center into an existing community at that point, you're potentially reshaping the county around it
- tdeck 2mo agoI don't believe this permanent jobs number. Companies always inflate them for projects like this to win political concessions.
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoi don't think you appreciate how big this build will be
- trollbridge 2mo agoIt will make that many jobs if it manages to stay open. Of course. The old uranium enrichment plant also created a lot of jobs. The problem is that it closed.
- KurSix 2mo agoThe $500B number is hard to even contextualize. Calling it a "data center" almost undersells what is being proposed