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A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant (www.wired.com)
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Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

This is sized at ~10% of the emissions of California's electric generation per year, so enough to be quite meaningful.

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[-] JerkyChew@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Will it be Homer Simpson in a mumu?

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's Texas.

[-] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago

I want to see what these natural gas generators look like. I have seen a spike of some type of gas equipment going down the highway but they don't necessarily look like photos I see in internet searches.

I only associate these things with gas from having spent time in oil and gas fields, and I don't see them on the road this often (until now).

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