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Three firms share 101,369 BTC Meta data centre projectwww.constructionbriefing.com/news/three-firms-share-10bn-meta-data-centre-project/8043490.article
222 sats \ 5 comments \ @BlokchainB 25 Dec 2024 Construction_and_Engineering
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Three construction companies – DPR Construction, Mortenson and Turner – have won a contract to build a $10 billion data centre campus for Meta in Louisiana, USA.
Turner said that the four-million-square-foot campus in Richland Parish, around 100 miles west of Jackson, would be Meta’s largest data centre to date.
It expects 5,000 construction workers to be on site during peak construction.
Meta’s energy partner, Entergy, will bring at least 1,500 MW of renewable energy to the grid, which Turner said would be enough to cover 100% of the electricity use of the Richland Parish Data Center.
Meta also claimed that the campus will use less water than the site does today, in line with Meta’s global goal to be water positive in 2030, which means Meta will restore more water than it consumes.
Meta building its largest data center in Louisiana. Hmmm
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134 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 25 Dec 2024
So this is the part that gets me. If they were realistic about producing more water than they consume, wouldnt they build it in the cheap desert? Louisiana has a lot of wet ground...so maybe they will do something with the water there? Also, 5000 workers are there for the construction, but I dont know a data center that actually retains construction workers after the buildings are complete. By the end of it, there may be only 100 employees to run the place. I could be wrong, but this is a bad investment. Im sure Meta can afford to build their own datacenter with their own money. Also, why are companies tying themselves to these goals? As long as you are efficient and producing a good product, you dont need to sell snake oil.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB OP 25 Dec 2024
Yeah I think it’s a tax play as always and states get duped into these deals
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76 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 25 Dec 2024
There have been so many projects where the governments pay for them, and then they struggle. Yet the companies talk about how much cash reserves they have. Its such a sham.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB OP 25 Dec 2024
Yeah socialism at its finest!!
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86 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 25 Dec 2024
Seeing how much the government is in debt, they should really think about curtailing their spending. Unless it is profitable, or the companies uses their money upfront, I dont think we should even entertain these kind of ideas anymore.
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