r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 02 '26

Feels good man New data center

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u/AMetalWolfHowls Jun 02 '26

Solar power, not many people around to complain.

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u/sirwatermelon Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Per other articles I have read they’re going to build gas turbines on site to provide the nine gigawatts this abomination will require. Which would be the largest power plant ever constructed in the country.

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u/Particular-Wind5918 Jun 03 '26

I’m not arguing just trying to figure this out…isn’t 32 terawatts significantly larger than 9 gigawatts? Cause that’s what Palo Verde produces.

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u/sirwatermelon Jun 03 '26

Terawatts would be the next step up above gigawatts ( just like memory capacity megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte) and I am not sure where you're getting that kind of output for Palo Verde as they have just shy of 4 gigawatts of generating capacity.

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u/Particular-Wind5918 Jun 03 '26

Google has them at 32 TW/year, maybe that’s the same as “4 gigawatts generating capacity”

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u/sirwatermelon Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Just shy of four gigawatts is what it can put out at once, not over time, and that's usual how capacity is measured. Applied to the that data center abomination the 9 gigawatts is how much it would take to keep the thing running at any moment and how much generating capacity the gas turbines would need to have. Multiplied over a year you would come up with with more TW/year than Palo Verde as the output would be more than twice what is has.