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Alberta government publishes pro data centre propaganda (rabble.ca)
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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

500 megawatts across an entire province to be built out over the course of a few years.

I can't understand where your optimism comes from.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    A) "across an entire province" is only 5 locations B) The currently largest active grid scale battery is 3.2GWh, in California. There are projects in planning or under construction to reach up to 40GWh. Again, this is solved tech that you can buy and build today. If you're going to drop a few billion on datacenters, there's not really anything stopping you from dropping a few billion more on solar/wind and batteries. Microsoft is dropping massive money on a Nuclear fusion plant in Washington state that's already under construction.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Wrong. Potentia-Viridi BESS isn't built yet. Why are you posting things in this thread that are factually incorrect?

    Alberta has 11 of these storage systems too, which I suppose you'd bring up if you knew anything. It's great that battery storage exists but imagining that it will be able to supply ai compute facilities is naive.

    Nuclear fusion plant in Washington

    Oh sorry I didn't know nuclear fusion was solved tech.

    My friend, you're dreaming. You're way out over your skis talking about these things.

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