Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors
Yes, sure, but have you considered that like 20 people will become obscenely wealthy for a short time before it all burns down? Makes it all worth it apparently!
Why are we treating this insanity as if it'll ever actually get built? Softball doesn't currently have $5B it can commit to a monster like that, let alone $500B. This is pure hypemongering.
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j_elgato@leminal.space · 34 pts · 136d
From the slow graveyard spiral that was so gentle we would never even notice when the future impacted with the fucking ground, to this:
Pitching the nose down 90° and kicking on the afterburners as we blast "rock you like a hurricane" while we hurdle to our doom.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 136d
Yes, sure, but have you considered that like 20 people will become obscenely wealthy for a short time before it all burns down? Makes it all worth it apparently!
/wrist :(
XLE@piefed.social · 24 pts · 136d
Softbank, the company known for good investments.
Like WeWork.
taxon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 136d
...and the Sprint Corporation
Seriously, they couldn't make an American Telco profitable.
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 136d
Why are we treating this insanity as if it'll ever actually get built? Softball doesn't currently have $5B it can commit to a monster like that, let alone $500B. This is pure hypemongering.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 136d
Because investor confidence is all that matters.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 136d
How much methane is that gonna burn?
Isn't methane bad for the environment?
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 136d
Methane is bad so we have to burn it all
xytaruka@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
Can't wait for it to become AM