News Power usage in Wyoming AI data center could eclipse consumption of the state's human residents by 5x — tenant of colossal investment remains a mystery

[Admin]

Plans are afoot to create a massive new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with power demands many multiples of the state's population.

Power usage in Wyoming AI data center could eclipse consumption of the state's human residents by 5x — tenant of colossal investment remains a mystery : Read more

 

[COLGeek]

Perhaps MetaCortex?

 

[jonaswox]

Just the irony of all this on the back of the esg rush, Prius marathon and people falling over each other to brand themselves as green.

Jets are still dumping endless tons of fuel in the air everyday, and ai spend 80% of the world Energy in a couple of years..... Maybe if we ask the ai to fix climate?

 

[Notton]

That's very cool because Wyoming produces around 52% of its electricity from Coal, and 35% from wind/solar.
and by very cool, I mean very dirty and uncool.

 

[bit_user]

Okay, that's it. We're definitely going to end up boiling the oceans.
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[COLGeek]

Okay, that's it. We're definitely going to end up boiling the oceans.
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Human batteries...

 

[rluker5]

Okay, that's it. We're definitely going to end up boiling the oceans.
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Nah, we will run out of cheap energy first and those who aren't rich will have to do without.
Thanks to the necessities of AI and crypto.

 

[bigdragon]

Politicians and corporate reps will always say that new data centers will not put a strain on existing power supply or raise prices for consumers prior to approval and construction of the data center. They immediately flip the script after the data center is built and demand residents pay more. This has been an ongoing problem in the Washington DC metro area. My energy bills had a big jump earlier this year after a few small ones in the past. Don't be fooled.

I think these massive AI centers need to supply their own electricity. They should be required to build power generation somewhere nearby as part of building the data center. AI is being treated like an infinite money glitch right now so I don't want to hear any excuses about how this would harm businesses.

 

[SonoraTechnical]

Human batteries...

Run Neo Run!

 

[SonoraTechnical]

Okay, that's it. We're definitely going to end up boiling the oceans.
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It will not end well. Me, a guy who's worked in the tech industry as an enabler his entire life... regrets not taking up regenerative farming.

 

[MarkHarrison]

Cheyenne?

Someone remind me what the name of the base in the Stargate Cinematic Universe was called?

And I know that the town is about 3 hours from the mountain, but still, it would be a massive missed opportunity to have this data centre for anything else.

 

[thunderbolt17]

All this to Ghiblify your photos in less than 5 seconds and create photorealistic AI scam videos of Dwayne Johnson selling dogecoins! Isn't technology wonderful and really useful to humanity?

 

[Giroro]

Cheyenne?

Someone remind me what the name of the base in the Stargate Cinematic Universe was called?

And I know that the town is about 3 hours from the mountain, but still, it would be a massive missed opportunity to have this data centre for anything else.

There's a whole lot of different places named Cheyenne. And that's more of Elon's weird sense of humor, probably.
I heard rumors that hyperscalers have been working in that general area for Elon, but they do a lot, drive far, and I don't know if its related.

Cheyenne Mountain in Star Gate is a reference to a real underground military installation dug into Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. (And I just now realize you meant that same mountain, because it's 3 hours away from Cheyenne, WY).
This base is also currently named Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station - even though it is underground, and Colorado Springs would be a pretty bad place to actually launch rockets.

Arguably the Stargate reference is part of why the Space Force was (is?) headquartered in that area - and why the Space Symposium is hosted at the Broadmoor Hotel a few miles away. There's also the Airforce Academy in town, but they didn't exactly rename it to the Space Force academy. There's already a lot of that kind of industry in that area... but if not for Star Gate then why did any space company move there in the first place?
It's not exactly a very good place to build rockets... or to do any kind of work... or to live..

Anyways I've spent this entire year trying/failing to sell a house in Colorado Springs! It's a really nice house with an amazing view of Cheyenne Mountain! Somebody, buy it, please!