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Autor Colop

Mene više fascinira odakle će vući struja za to.
Znači ameri kažu da AI data centar od 1 footbal field troši struje kao grad od 30.000 ljudi.

The biggest and most powerful AI data center is Microsoft's Fairwater facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, expected to go online in early 2026. It is a 315-acre site that will house hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and is designed to act as a single, massive AI supercomputer.

Ako je premisa točna,

315 acres = približno 1.274.760 m² (točno: 1.274.759,77 m²).
igralište američkog nogometa = 5.350 četvornih metara.


1.274.759,77 ÷ 5.350,00 ≈ 238,28

Dakle, površina od 315 acre odgovara otprilike 238,28 američkih nogometnih igrališta.


Izračun:

238,28 × 30.000 = 7.148.400

Dakle, rezultat je 7.148.400. ljudi, tj taj data centar će trošiti struje kao čitav grad Madrid.

Nuklearke, nema druge.

The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected to start generating power again in 2027. Constellation unveiled plans to rename and restart the reactor in Sept. 2024 through a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to support the tech company's data center demand in the region.

Three Mile Island Unit 1 ceased operations in 2019, one of a dozen reactors that closed in recent years as nuclear struggled to compete against cheap natural gas. It sits on the same site as Three Mile Island Unit 2, the reactor that partially melted down in 1979 in the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. The loan would cover the majority to the project's estimated cost of $1.6 billion. The first advance to Constellation is expected in the first quarter of 2026, said Greg Beard, senior advisor to the Energy Department's Loan Programs Office, in a call with reporters. The loan comes with a guarantee from Constellation that it will protect taxpayer money, Beard said.