They are putting a huge new data center in Cheyenne Wyoming in the middle of an unprecedented, at least for 8,000 years, drought. When the water stops flowing into the servers and they begin to combust who will be blamed, the city, county, the state or the idiots who sited the damn thing.
Ive read entire article and some comments here. While I appreciate the call outs of what and why the negative impacts. Any suggestion of location where best to build to minimize the negatives?
While your article was excellent, you neglected a vital component of the discussion. The impact on the health of the community has been profound. Though I do not live in TN, I have been following the story of Musk’s AI plant in Memphis and it’s affect on the communities health. This has got to be part of the discussion whenever data centers are being built, as the impact is real and incredibly significant to our health.
"The question that should come before approval..." of another (unwanted?) Data Center is this: heat generation by whatever means is resulting in each 50MW Center producing 4.1 billion BTUs PER DAY, no matter how that heat is moved into the environment by whatever cooling tech, so, do we really want our planet to BURN THE HELL UP? This is an industry friendly diversion and I'm unsubscribing.
They are putting a huge new data center in Cheyenne Wyoming in the middle of an unprecedented, at least for 8,000 years, drought. When the water stops flowing into the servers and they begin to combust who will be blamed, the city, county, the state or the idiots who sited the damn thing.
The locals will be stuck with exorbitant costs as happened with the energy boom there.
Looks like "spoiled brat" Elon, should really go by the name "SLOPPY JOE"!
Whatever Elon wants these days, Elon gets. No matter who or what he harms.
That Maye Musk really knows how to raise a responsible inhuman!
Ive read entire article and some comments here. While I appreciate the call outs of what and why the negative impacts. Any suggestion of location where best to build to minimize the negatives?
Great point, I plan on doing another article explaining just that. Thanks for the comment.
While your article was excellent, you neglected a vital component of the discussion. The impact on the health of the community has been profound. Though I do not live in TN, I have been following the story of Musk’s AI plant in Memphis and it’s affect on the communities health. This has got to be part of the discussion whenever data centers are being built, as the impact is real and incredibly significant to our health.
Here is an earlier article we did on some of the health impacts
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetonymichaels/p/the-ground-beneath-genesis-the-dirty?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
We have done a previous article on the health impacts. I forgot to link it to this article.
"The question that should come before approval..." of another (unwanted?) Data Center is this: heat generation by whatever means is resulting in each 50MW Center producing 4.1 billion BTUs PER DAY, no matter how that heat is moved into the environment by whatever cooling tech, so, do we really want our planet to BURN THE HELL UP? This is an industry friendly diversion and I'm unsubscribing.