merelygifted:

…  You might think that building data centres in the desert is unreasonable – the cooling costs would be too high – but despite its harsh climate, Nevada has attracted plenty of infrastructure developers including at least one other hyperscaler, Switch, which claims to be the owner of the world’s largest data centre building. Part of the allure of the state is down to low taxes and the low cost of electricity.  …

  

I wonder how much of nevada’s electricity is generated by solar and wind?! The google only wants to tell me “goals” they’ve set re: the percentage of renewables they’re trying to make energy companies use, so it remains a mystery. Why pretty much all of their energy isn’t coming from solar also remains a mystery.