Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
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Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#2Far north cool places seem logical for data centers.
Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#3Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
Politics means putting job creating infrastructure projects in red states to curry favor with Republican demographics.
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#4Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
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Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#5Good on Google.
Finland has low emissions from electricity :
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/all/yearly
71 gC02eq/kwH
France, Sweden and Norway look like good places for data centres in Europe too on the basis of low electricity emissions.
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#6Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
* good access to power (this might not mean the cheapest always, but actually getting to it.
* easy permitting
* lots of space
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#7Oh good. Then Google will be "clean", while countless homes will be getting their power from coal or whatever instead of this nuclear plant.
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#8Good on Google. Finland has low emissions from electricity : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/all/yearly 71 gC02eq/kwH France, Sweden and Norway look like good places for data centres in Europe too on the basis of low electricity emissions.
At least Sweden is struggling a lot with scaling its power production, to the point where it's a problem for existing and new industries and causing some rather extreme price volatility.
A lot of the green energy is from hydro dams and you can't really add new rivers to the geography to support additional industry.
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#9Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
Politics means putting job creating infrastructure projects in red states to curry favor with Republican demographics.
Calling data centers “job creating infrastructure” seems like a bit of an oxymoron tbh
Re: Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
#10Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
* good access to power (this might not mean the cheapest always, but actually getting to it. * easy permitting * lots of space
Which makes Arizona an interesting place to place any new builds of any sort of data center. They’ve been talking about the scarcity of resources there for years, and it’s currently in an escalating tailspin of abundance. Power is cheap as hell there, but once the water dries up… things might change quickly.