Comment by onionisafruit
9 hours ago
I’m having trouble with the football-field to acre conversion in this article. It talks about the complex being the size 12 football fields and the data center being 520 acres. I could believe it if those numbers were swapped and there was a 12 football field data center in a 520 acre complex. So I don’t know if they swapped the sizes of the complex and the actual data center or the author thinks football fields are much larger than they really are.
For non-Americans, an American Football field is about 1-1/3 acres, a little smaller than a football/soccer field at about 1-3/4 acres
Not sure if serious because you're converting from football fields to acres, but the acre is another unit that non-Americans generally don't use.
Acres are still widely used in the UK and Ireland for measuring rural and agricultural land. The legal documents for the land will use hectares, but lots of people and documents will use acres outside of legal documents.
India has has a substantial number of acre users.
Yeah, as you say, 12 football fields are an order of magnitude smaller than 500+ acres.