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On data centers and energy usage, "Data centers don't need the grid, you can put the data center where the power source is." Khosla Ventures’ Vinod Khosla #BloombergGreen ⏯️

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Louie1 year ago

@business @khoslaventures @vkhosla Umm. No. They need the grid or they take power from generators helping the grid

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Sherrod Brown is running a Pac-Man themed ad about data centers in #OHSen: "Ohio's electric grid. Big corporations treat it like a game, gobbling up energy to feed their data centers. ... I'll require the data centers pay the full cost of their electricity, not you."

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147,412 views • 2 months ago

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I love President Trump but I’m not with him on the data centers. The opposition to data centers seems real and organic. The need to shove data centers down the throats of communities who don’t want them seems to be manufactured.

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Energy harvesting data gathering simulation. The same thing data centers do only way larger.

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