alt Hacker NewsWhat's the tremendous externality of gas generators? People heat their own homes with natural gas and it's no big deal. How can a datacenter that is miles away be worse than that?
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coliveira • today at 5:16 AM
How can something that is a million times bigger than your home be any different, right?
jLaForest • today at 1:12 AM
The gas furnace in my basement don't have a massive jet turbine emiting high frequency noise
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Its totally inefficient - burning the same gas in a co-generation plant, ideally combined with district heating, would produce the same amount of pollution and basically make use of all the energy.