Posted on 01/26/2025 9:43:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Construction on what appears to be two buildings on Stargate's first data center campus, now underway in Texas, is expected to be complete by the end of the year and cost an estimated $1.1 billion, according to public filings.
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“The nations first Molten Salt reactor in the nation.”
Third.
Yay!! Our area property just went up in value! 😂
GPT:
What % increase in natural gas consumption in the US can be expected from AI data centers?
AI data centers will be 3-5% of global electricity consumption. Much more concentrated in the US, perhaps to 10-20%. Natural gas is 40% of electricity sources in the US and is growing as coal is replaced.
This points at maybe 60% of US electricity from nat gas. US currently produces (mostly for consumption, a very small amount for LNG shipments) about 1.1 Trillion cubic meters/year.
US reserves about 16 Trillion cubic meters.
So if the 1.1 is growing, and sharply, and even more sharply for the non nuclear AI data centers (most will not be local nuclear powered) we’re looking at about 10 years of supply remaining in the US.
Will more be found? Yes. Will it be found as fast as consumption grows? Not a chance.
We’ll be begging Russia and Iran and Qatar for natgas. After a few decades of trashing them.
Had heard about that. I am only 60 miles from Abilene. We have been here since 1889.
Dyess AFB?
Pantex?
AI?
Some things don’t work out like they are planned. Science works that way.
I think it is ironic that Elon Musk contributed start up money to OpenAI. And then they went from opensource to for-profit.
Accompany that with how much Musk and X helped elect President Trump. It would make some sense for Musk to have an interest in this.
Are you in anyway related to Thorium?
“Like a good neighbor, Microsoft is there!”
Enjoy. Maybe they will build 2,000 MW of windmills nearby to power the place, too. Thrump, thrump, thrump...
I’m no fan of MS.
What are the cooling requirements?
See post #8. That is a cooling fan on top, where it used to say, “Intel Inside”.
(That, or it’s the CMP from “Tron”.)
And why do all these massive highly profitable companies with billionaire CEOs need one single penny from the government?
“Government is probably the worse way possible to do science.”
Largely agree. But it depends upon who is in control.
Very large projects are difficult to manage. Certainly for Bureaucraps.
5502 Spinks Rd, Abilene, TX 79601
A couple of those access roads meet up with Street View (Oct 2024).
Signs say
Future site of Lancium Clean Campus
I'd not use 'probably'...
Part of that skepticism in the massive amount of government spending into drug research and advancements. That money in grants and other university research is teamed with private industry and discovery. We end up with amazing result sometimes, but we then get zero discounts or savings in the drugs. We end up spending more on the drugs than the rest of the world instead of getting our money back.
With a population of less than 200,000, Abilene is an interesting choice to pour a half-a-trillion-dollar investment. Probably most of this money will end up being spent elsewhere, but still, this city is not where I’d expect PE and VC to pick to build a massive technological infrastructure.
I share your trepidations. The body language and syrupy praise for President Trump from these three leaders told me they were hiding something big from us and him.
Regardless, I’d rather see the money invested here than in a foreign country.
But I do want our national and state leaders to keep a watchful eye to be sure we are not entering a Faustian bargain.
Altman is the billionaire CEO of the company he novely shepherded from non-profit open source to private for profit. He’s openly gay, “married” to a man, and his benevolent and charitable projects include launching a cryptocurrency tied to the owners’ biometric information.
I think he and all of the leaders are well-intentioned. But we know good intentions are what the path to Hell is paved with.
Water for cooling? Or LN2? I’ve read huge amounts needed. I could be incorrect.
I think Trump is looking at AI as a means to obtain cheap to free energy. A large portion of this investment will focus on developing newer and cheaper sources of the massive amount of energy required for AI.
Cheap energy screws a lot of our enemies and can be used to raise the standard of living everywhere. Especially here.
AI will be a by product of cheaper/cleaner energy. And the US will leadnin AI as well.
A few thoughts:
1) It is unclear for the source of the money. it is both public and private?
2) There have been successful outcomes of huge govt projects with private management. Imagine building all the electrical generating dams. What were we going to do with all that electricity?
3) This is a huge centralization project that can be used for good or evil. Again, what are we going to do with all that AI?
4) Better on this than global warming
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