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‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (www.politico.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Better to hit the substation supplying it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    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.

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