u/Burncity1901

I want to add that I work in data centre construction.

I listened to an episode that has Burnie and JD and they talk about data centres. Which is partly why I’m writing this.

I’ve also been seeing a lot of this 40,000 acre data centre in Utah being built. From my understanding Kevin O’Leary some how made the state government fund this project basically. This has been proven that The state already has these permits, grants, packages and subsidies available already. And he has taken the opportunity to capitalise on that.

There are main issues that keep coming up. Water, electricity, heating, fire and noise.

Water - okay so we all hear about these. Water isn’t used. “Water cooled” systems are a thing with a massive Asterisk. These are actually liquid cooled so think about coolant or anti freeze. Water couldn’t cope and wouldn’t cool anything down due to it getting hot and boiling. It would explode the pipes that pump it through. I’ve built 5 liquid cooled systems.

Heat - it’s hot. INSIDE THE ROOM. Yes it gets vented out through the roof but it’s less impactful than a truck hauling 100ton.

Electricity - biggest site I’ve worked at pulls 500 MW. They have their own transformers. The once specific in Utah that is being built says they are building their own power plant. Okay fine. Go for it.

Fire - They don’t use water to extinguish fires in data centre. They use inert gases that fills the room and removes all oxygen. The room temp has to reach a certain temperature before the doors lock and makes the room air tight. You’d be dead before that if you were in the room so no need to worry. There’s a whole bunch of procedures to follow after the fact to release those gases and to vent them.

Noise - loudest room I’ve been in is 130 DB. Double hearing protection. The walls are thiccccckkkkk. They might as well be 1 meter thick wall of concrete and rebar thick. Nothing is getting out of that. You can’t hear the screams from the outside. You can be standing next to the wall and you can’t hear anything. So noise doesn’t escape the room. Once that door is closed. Off comes the ear muffs and out comes the ear plugs.

Is there an AI bubble? There could be, and OpenAI seems to the industry leader on this. So whoever owns that i would be buying shares. All I can see is that there’s 30 guys from 1 company for the past 5mths working in this one hall.

Data centres aren’t just for AI. And this is where I get annoyed. Think the entire internet is in these data centres. When Amazon Web Services servers went down ( let me make this clear I WASNT THERE AND I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT SITUATION) from my experience and knowledge there was a power outage. One rack yeah would do something. But that would have been a whole centre or 1 or 2 rooms.

Now onto the Utah thing. That’s gonna be a 20 year project, thousands of jobs from electricians, plumbers, concrete workers, cranes, truck drivers, data cablers, security guards, security installers. Then think for a moment 40k acres. Thats not gonnabe 1 hall. That’s gonnabe hundreds of halls. Sold off to many companies to rent that space. These data centres once built hires 100 to 150 staff. Then you need the people that install the racks. To completely fill that space would last 50years. You’d be decommissioning the first build before you complete the last.

The power of 5 by Anthony Horowitz. It has 5 book series. It’s about 5 teenagers with supernatural abilities finding each other around the world and trying to save the world from evil people.