@freya@social.highenergymagic.net
Post #2800133
2026-05-13 21:37 UTC
@JulianOliver@mastodon.social obviously I'm right. do these people fucking understand what 9GW is? There is a literal fucking shortage of copper of the correct grade to build transformers and distribution hardware for this shit. it takes at least 18 months to build a couple hundred MW datacenter, and even those are currently stuck in development hell. these projects exist entirely to make investors throw more money in the cycle of stupid to keep it going a little longer. this will not get built. fucking trust me on this one, babes. you've got nothing to worry about. 9GW. honestly. they're just making the number bigger because nobody who makes these decisions knows how power generation and distribution works
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@MisuseCase@twit.social 2026-05-13 21:40
@freya@social.highenergymagic.net @JulianOliver@mastodon.social If you are correct, this whole project is some kind of scam to get tax breaks/deregulation/juiced stocks/whatever
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 21:46
@freya@social.highenergymagic.net I also wonder often about the copper. 9GW seems beyond the beyond. How many years would the build take, over which time copper continues to dwindle sharply in supply? Not to mention Lithium for the acres of batteries they'll need for UPSs. Diesel for generators, enough to power a whole town? I just don't see how a single customer could secure all that. It is indeed plausible $massivedatacenter is just investor cocaine for pump and dump market play.