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‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution.
(www.politico.com)
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I don't think you understand how big these data centers are. They are the size of entire cities. A Tesla crash would have the effect of a single car crash in Manhattan.
I think you may be underestimating the size of cities. Even San Francisco, famously small for a major city, is 15 times (at approx. 30k acres) the size of the physically largest data center in the US (Switch Reno Tahoe) at 2,000 acres. That's still just 1/7th the size of Manhattan.
I won't argue that 2,000 acres isn't huge for a data center, but just trying to put numbers to the argument.
Better to hit the substation supplying it.
Substations are full of oil-cooled power transformers.
Oil-cooled power transformers are large, obvious targets that can be permanently disabled by a single hit from a decently powerful rifle, even at great distance (all you have to do is punch a hole in it and let the oil leak out so it overheats), and they're expensive and time-consuming to replace.
Just saying...
There was an incident a few years back where someone shot one up to cut power for a gay bar or some such other harmless thing. They never did find the person who did it.
I hear there's thousands of Cybertrucks just sitting around. Seems like a good use for them.
Besides, you just have to hit the important bits. Power, Network, Cooling.
If the battery cooks off inside the data center, it will do some damage. The amount of water that will be required to put it out will do even more damage.
How many teslas can we get to that location is the real question
Someone needs to hack every Tesla and drive them into the nearest data centre.
That's what AI is for, get working on it!