How is comparing energy usage of a facility like a data center to a weapon that killed millions of people many decades ago an illuminating comparison?
It is like comparing a banana to a chair.
DangitBobby•10m ago
It's not how much energy is used, it's how much wasted heat energy is dumped into the surrounding environment. Seems like a much more apt comparison in that light. Second paragraph of TFA:
> An analysis of the mammoth data centre proposed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day.
ipsum2•7m ago
Still makes no sense. People do not have an intuition about how much heat a nuclear bomb gives off, and comparing an instantaneous explosion versus a energy in a day is really dumb.
andsoitis•44m ago
It is like comparing a banana to a chair.
DangitBobby•10m ago
> An analysis of the mammoth data centre proposed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day.
ipsum2•7m ago
DangitBobby•4m ago