Physicist Warns Alberta AI Data Centre Will Be One of Planet's Largest Heat Sources
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Jody MacPherson
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Summary
A Utah State University physicist warns that Alberta's Wonder Valley AI data centre, combined with a nine-gigawatt power plant, will become one of the largest single-site heat sources on Earth when fully operational. The assessment, commissioned by the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, describes the facility as an "energy-and-heat behemoth" that goes far beyond traditional data centres, fusing massive computing with massive power generation.
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· 3 pulledThese are not data centres in any familiar sense of the term.
From here on, I'll refer to these energy-and-heat behemoths—massive compute fused with massive power generation.
one of the largest single-site heat sources on the planet
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