Wonder Valley data center's waste heat and carbon emissions draw scrutiny
What happened
Physicist Robert Davies published preliminary estimates of the environmental impact of the proposed Wonder Valley AI data center in Alberta, Canada, backed by Kevin O'Leary. Based on public materials, Davies estimates the waste heat produced each day carries energy equal to 23 Hiroshima bombs, and that full operation would emit about 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year, over 4% of Canada's total emissions. The figures are estimates, not measurements from an operating facility.
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- Hacker News front pageProposed data centre will release 23 Hiroshima atomic bomb worth of energy a day
物理学家 Robert Davies 初步估算，拟建的 Wonder Valley AI 数据中心每日废热相当于 23 枚广岛原子弹释放的能量。该项目由 Kevin O’Leary 支持，拟建于加拿大阿尔伯塔省，Davies 基于公开资料估计其全面运行后每年排放约 30 million tonnes 二氧化碳，超过加拿大总排放量的 4%。
Heat over time
Not enough continuous observations to draw a trend yet.