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For a single, square building, this area would be about 5 miles on a side. That's ridiculous, and you'd have a hard time getting rid of the heat

If you're putting up fences, include no-go zones, curvy roads with check points and bollards, etc etc to protect a number of large but not absurdly large buildings, maybe. Still seems on the big size.



Some of the graphics indicate a contiguous building but it makes no sense to be constructed that way. The footprint probably includes power generation, power conversion, cooling systems, and compute centers as distinct blocks/buildings within the site.


It likely won’t be a single building the size of Manhattan, Facebook doesn’t build their data centers like that now.

Each Facebook data center has multiple buildings on each site, at least at the three sites I am familiar with.


He has to go on signaling to attract people (at this stage its mostly opportunists having a field day).


Lot of eggs to put in one basket. What happens if there is some type of natural disaster in the area?




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