Some of the biggest data centers are pushing 100 megawatts. When I worked on the solar farms out west, an entire industrial site would be around 200-400 megawatts.
For context, those sites would be powering entire towns. The Blythe mesa solar project is over 2,000 acres of solar panels. It’s bigger than the town. Quite a bit of Las Vegas is ran on solar.
It’s not quite as simple as just sticking panels on the roof of the data center. It also needs to be reliable enough to store the energy so it’s available at night when the sun is down. This is still one of solar’s biggest hurdles.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I’m sure they’ll put them outside where the residents of local towns will be subjected to their cacophony
PushButton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They will call that “progress”, and probably “clean energy”, that’s going to be good for aaalllll citizens of that town.
That’s why the citizens will have to pay extra taxes to finance the new “town infrastructure”.
Now bring the data center money.