Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors

• Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just one note, nuclear power plants run at around 35% efficiency. This is because they are basically steam generators and tend to not push as hard for safety. I think they can get up to 40-45% with combined cycles and such, but then we are in the “very large” territory

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• bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Large scale data centers, like the ones that end up in the news for FAANG are ~100 megawatt footprints.

  I have no idea where you’re getting 3.4 megawatts as the largest data center in the US, but that is wildly undersized.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably in northern Utah.

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