Comment by redox99
15 hours ago
What's the tremendous externality of gas generators? People heat their own homes with natural gas and it's no big deal. How can a datacenter that is miles away be worse than that?
15 hours ago
What's the tremendous externality of gas generators? People heat their own homes with natural gas and it's no big deal. How can a datacenter that is miles away be worse than that?
Its totally inefficient - burning the same gas in a co-generation plant, ideally combined with district heating, would produce the same amount of pollution and basically make use of all the energy.
How can something that is a million times bigger than your home be any different, right?
The gas furnace in my basement don't have a massive jet turbine emiting high frequency noise
It's the low frequencies that's more of an issue apparently. Benn Jordan has a great series of videos about it, including one on Colossus
I wouldn't call noise pollution a "tremendous externality". The gas turbines should just be placed far enough from where people live.
Should, but in fact are too close.