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@wim_v12e@scholar.social  路  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

The article calls the developing company, Apatura, a "renewable energy developer", but the reality is that they specialise in the land acquisition, design, planning, and operation of large-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems for hyperscale data centres. (2/3)

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https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/plans-announced-to-resurrect-former-steelworks-as-a-green-data-center
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@wim_v12e@scholar.social  路  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

Let's assume this data centre actually draws 300 MW all the time then it consumes 2.628 TWh/year. At a typical Water Usage Effectiveness of 0.3 l/kWh it would need 788 thousand m鲁 of water for cooling.

The site for the data centre, Ravenscraig, is in Motherwell (near Glasgow). That is a town of 33,000 people. The households of such a town consume 2 million m鲁 of water per year. So that data centre will consume 40% of that. (3/3)

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