Comment by jeffbee
5 months ago
Total rewrite of my previous reply:
There's a 7-million-sqft data center near Reno that claims 650MW capacity. Zuck says his will be 4 million sqft. So that doesn't really get us to 5GW unless we're going vertical.
5 months ago
Total rewrite of my previous reply:
There's a 7-million-sqft data center near Reno that claims 650MW capacity. Zuck says his will be 4 million sqft. So that doesn't really get us to 5GW unless we're going vertical.
To be fair, datacenter power density has skyrocketed over time: https://www.ramboll.com/en-us/insights/decarbonise-for-net-z...
These are being built at the same time, so any trends over time are not in play.
If they averaged only 60KW per rack that would be about 1.7Million sqft of 'white floor space' or about 3-4 million sqft gross building size.