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According to a quick search. A data center uses about 1 ton of cooling per every 200-300 sq for

A 7,000,000 sq ft facility would use about 23,333 tons of cooling (at 300 sq ft/ton)

To put that into perspective, that is in the range of peak cooling for the entire LSU campus, which is over 200 buildings…. (Campus load fed from the CHW plant by Tiger stadium and the one by the Parker coliseum).

Any Universities getting any federal money, even if research grants, should accept Americans first

Almost 34 years with same company. Couldn’t imagine searching for a job today. But thankfully I am AI replacement immune.

Just need company to stay a company till retirement age….. and compensate me accordingly.

I’ll take some more gear. The shirt I won in the past was nice

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They also may want to be careful of US influence on the Caspian Sea.

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A friendly Iran puts pressure on Russias southern exposure…….

Ghost of Sherman……

At a minimum, this link is misrepresenting the costs/payback. or they are just out right makign it up.


found an article on the size and "savings" for the solar array:

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so the 5MWac solar array is "making" $500k year.

The article says that the site is also grandfather in to the 1 to 1 Net metering credit that is no longer in place.


What the article fails to show is the cost to construct the solar farm.is that solar farm will cost north of $10m to build and interconnect to the utility grid. And that is with the ITC credit that is gone shortly. so even with the old rules with ITC, that is a 20 year payback

so the article is stating the savings without factoring in the capitol upfront cost to built it. and this money was likely borrowed by the school district through bonds so there is an interest factor. also, there is a maintenance cost associated with maintaining a solar farm as well that will go against the savings.

Typically solar farms will last 25-30 years (barring a severe weather event) and the output will degrade about 0.5% per year.

But yea, if you make the initial cost of construction $0, and you are grandfathered into a 1 to 1 net metering deal that is no longer available you "make money"

However, with the ITC saf Harbor date of July 3, 2026 coming soon and no more ITC credits given for projects started after that date.

So once the ITC goes away, that $10m cost of construction goes to $15m and the simple payback goes from 20yer to 30year, which is the life of the panel. but the panels degrade 0.5% per year.......


THis is why solar is not sustainable without ITC subsidies....

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Looks like the plan now is back out, declare victory, and just cross our fingers for regime change?

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you must have missed his reply to a question shortly after this question about if they negotiations fail.... Trump said "then we will just keep bombing pur little hearts out"

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He says if the postponement of strikes goes well "we're going to end up with settling this - otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out"

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Hypothesis #2

He is the greatest president in my lifetime because he is not a member of the uni-party and is not an insider. He also learned from his 1st term and from the attacks in between terms that he does not need to give a frick on feelings and trying to work with the establishment.

He just needs to go “hard in the paint”

Electorate has a short news cycle memory.

Come November, if this is still ongoing, it would be an issue. But if it’s over before then it will be a faded memory with respect to voting.

7+ months is an eternity in a voting cycle……

I like how he is not trying to fight a war with one hand tied behind our backs.

And thankfully we are now mostly energy independent.