Are you really saying that in 2026, a year when only the nuts are still trying to claim climate change isn’t a thing, the most intelligent approach to the problem of powering data centres that are mostly being built for the purpose of juicing share prices is gas turbines at an industrial scale? The most intelligent approach is to not build the things. The next most intelligent approach is solar and batteries nearby. Way down the bottom of the list is burning gas to power them.
replyYou seem to be assuming the people proposing and making these decisions value the continuation of humanity over share prices.
replyWhat are you, some kind of a Luddite? (/s)
> Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information
replyBut this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!
Its west Texas, the natural gas is already nearby.
replyThe ocean tidal power data center idea was a neat one.
replyI don’t see how that generates anywhere near enough power, think about the potential energy of a bucket of water going up and down that amount over the course of a day.
replySure, but then multiply that by several million buckets. Tidal flows can represent a lot of water volume, way more than you'd expect
replyI agree. It has to be more viable than sending GPUs to space.
replyBoth are questionable. Tidal power is super neat in theory but we really struggle to make it viable in practice. GPUs in space are probably the lower risk option, but with even more questionable economics
replyMy preferred outlandish idea would be to put the data centers next to solar farms in the Sahara. I just don't know yet how we are going to make the batteries to power that through the night