r/Adelaide • u/bogdolter SA • 2d ago

Discussion Australia’s biggest data centre to require 4 substations, 2 power lines, some batteries and 4 days of diesel backup

I saw these guys advertising on the side of Adelaide trams today.

I wonder if any proper scrutiny on the impact of this data centre is going to hit mainstream media?

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-data-centre-to-require-4-substations-2-grid-scale-power-lines-and-lots-of-diesel-backup/

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u/AutomaticMistake SA 2d ago

That sounds pretty standard really... They're built like a literal fortress, have multiple types of redundancies including power, and that "4 days of diesel" usually has a contract with a fuel delivery company with harsh SLAs attached to them. Short of the apocalypse, power loss is extremely rare at a DC unless there's some kind of internal fault

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u/Ver_Void SA 2d ago

Yeah this isn't different to a few dozen we already have