Finding greenfield locations for Server Farms is getting more difficult it seems. We use to live just down the transmission lines from the Perry nuclear plant in Northeast Ohio. That facility was originally going to have two reactors, but only one was completed. There is a lot of inexpensive land just south of the facility and it seems an investor would like to develop the land-
We were given the choice of paying 20 bucks a month to have AI generated information to go with our security system. The AI figured out that our brown and tan dog was a German Shepard after a lot of training. The AI training never figured out that our big black dog was a Boarder Collie. We declined paying for the service.
Data centres in West Virginia, then?
In principle, all the depressed coal districts could be revived to challenge the urban renewal achieved by James Rouse decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rouse
Finding greenfield locations for Server Farms is getting more difficult it seems. We use to live just down the transmission lines from the Perry nuclear plant in Northeast Ohio. That facility was originally going to have two reactors, but only one was completed. There is a lot of inexpensive land just south of the facility and it seems an investor would like to develop the land-
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/national-news/ohio/perry-township-trustees-sign-off-on-tax-break-deal-for-new-data-center/
The Bad Boys had a great post today that discussed the costs of blackouts that you may find of interest.
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-price-of-darkness-a-first-look/comments
We were given the choice of paying 20 bucks a month to have AI generated information to go with our security system. The AI figured out that our brown and tan dog was a German Shepard after a lot of training. The AI training never figured out that our big black dog was a Boarder Collie. We declined paying for the service.
LOL!
Data centres need to get rid of a lot of heat. Arn't many under water in oceans for cheaper cooling.