• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        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.

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        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.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        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.