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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are on our own and will suffer the consequences of air pollution from the tens of thousands of desiel generators needed for all of the data centers. [/quote] Those are backup generators if the power fails. They're generally fired up once a month for about 10 minutes for routine testing and that's it.[/quote] And when the electricity grid does not have capacity. Which will be very frequent because it’s going to be almost impossible for the utility providers to increase the electricity production to meet this level of demand. The pollution will be horrendous if there is a major outage. It will be worse than the smog Beijing used to have with PMI 2.5 levels in the 200+ range. [/quote]
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