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    4 days ago

    They claim the data center is on 62 square miles. Manhattan is 33.6 square miles.

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      So that Manhattan figure includes 10.8 sq miles of water.

      Regardless of the building footprint, the 40,000 acres limit of disturbance is impactful to local watersheds. Not to mention the plan it to create a (useless, IMO) device that consumes two-fold the energy as the entire state.