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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is China actually building a billion datacenters like the US or is it media making up an opponent that doesn't exist in order to justify the US building a billion datacenters?

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

https://hexbear.net/comment/7189200 This report came out recently and they put the energy use of Chinese data centers at somewhere between a quarter and a third of the US's, but with much less strain on the national grid because of all the surplus capacity they've built up

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Not sure, but one thing China is definitely actually building is electrical infrastructure, both clean generation and very high power and long distance transmission.