r/PoursTea • u/homelessguydiet • 3h ago

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u/Hitlers_Left_Ball 3h ago

https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/

It's not hard to be more than 5 miles from one though... is it!?

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u/homelessguydiet 3h ago

I think you missed the point

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u/Hitlers_Left_Ball 3h ago

No, I didn't.

I added context to your click bait... or is that what you mean by missing the point - I didn't clap like a seal for your disingenuous post?

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u/Tomatoesarentfruit 2h ago

Additionally, the majority of the data centers in the US are very small facilities - there are only some 500 operational 100MW class hyperscale data centers in the country. I would also add that in most of the county’s/towns where smaller scale data centers have been built - original opposition fell by the wayside once the data center turned on began subsidizing a large portion of county / town plublic spending

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u/Vissanna 2h ago

I think it hit home really when ai datacenters for texas requested 484MW of energy...... thats more than 40% of the entire United States energy output

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u/Tomatoesarentfruit 2h ago

MW are a measure of power (the rate of energy production at a specific moment), not a measure of energy, so this doesn’t make a ton of sense. Also to be clear the US has peak installed capacity of ~1.3 TW; 484 MW represents ~0.04% of total US capacity, not 40%