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23 atomic bombs per day does not really tell me much. Both boxer's punch and a 9mm bullet have about 450 J of energy, but the effects are very different.
A better comparison would be ~550000 average US houses... or a single medium-sized aluminum smelter factory.
Want to provide a citation for either of these? This would have the average US household dissipating the equivalent of ~30kW, which does not pass the smell test for me.
Size = 62mi² https://kutv.com/news/local/proposed-box-elder-data-center-r...
Energy usage = 9 Gigawats (Utah uses 4 Gigawatts total) https://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/hundreds-of-utahns-fil...
Water usage permitted = 13,000 acre-feet (26k-39k homes worth) https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/box-elder-county/mo...
What is the standard "atomic bomb" unit these days?
Also what is a ‘standard atomic bomb’? Presumably one kept in a vault at the American National Standards Institute for reference.
This is an absolutely meaningless statistic. It's pretty hard to believe that it would be included in an otherwise informative article.
Very explicitly, it's 1.21 jigawatts. Completely different unit. What's a jigawatt? It's a movie, neither jigawatts nor flux capacitors are real things.