Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 21 hours agodo they have 2 GW of backup generators, though?
Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 21 hours agodo they have 2 GW of backup generators, though?
kokope11i@lemmy.world 20 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 15 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 15 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.