What Zuckerberg did not mention is that “Let’s go build” refers not only to the massive data center but also three new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants and a transmission line to fuel it serviced by Entergy Louisiana, the region’s energy monopoly.
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dhork@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe irony is that they often have backup diesel generators, so even if they cause a blackout they will still be able to service everyone’s AI requests to do their homework for them
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 hours ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Thank god our power is being sucked up for cheating and generating AI porn.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
do they have 2 GW of backup generators, though?
kokope11i@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
A properly built data center will be able to cover its full usage. They are just scaling up a known method. High availability is built into these things.
When a data center loses power for any length of time, it is a big deal requiring a full investigation and mitigation.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
that’s a lot of fuel. and smoke too.
and I assume they need to replace all that fuel once in a while even if unused, because it goes bad in a few years
med@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
They do. There’s some companies that will condition, polish, clean and even eventually rotate out the fuel as part of a subscription.
Between maintaining power supply, backup power and cooling, data centre facilities maintenance is more than a full time job.