Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day agothat’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 23 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.