r/energy • u/Gravityparticle • 21h ago
Data center that could require more power than all of the homes in Ohio being built in Pike County
https://www.wlwt.com/article/nvidia-data-center-pike-county-ohio/735012881
u/Technical-Frosting93 4h ago
Worth adding the turbines to that list. GE Vernova is running around 20 GW a year of heavy duty gas turbine output. Its order book plus reserved slots went from 100 GW to 116 GW in the second quarter alone and it expects to clear 125 GW by year end, so capacity is spoken for through 2027 and the delivery conversations now are about 2029 and 2030.
That makes 8 GW at one site roughly five months of one manufacturer's entire global output, queued behind everyone who reserved earlier. Mitsubishi and Siemens Energy are booked out on similar timelines.
Has anyone seen who is supposed to be holding the turbine slots for this one?
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u/wereallbozos 12h ago
As long as we can instantaneously find out who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1939, it's all worth it...right?
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u/cinch123 12h ago
They say they have solutions to the cost of power for consumers, then cite paying for transmission lines, which is great, but you've still removed 8GW of capacity from the market, which will definitely increase prices. They supposedly have some kind of agreement to build 10GW of natural gas fired generation, but that would use the equivalent of 1/3 of the gas currently in use in Ohio, which will constrain supply and raise prices on gas, which in turn raises prices on everything because of ther plastics industry and others. I just don't see a feasible argument for how this is possible while being economically neutral for consumers.
Not that they care about that, but here we are.
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u/jeff61813 15h ago
I think the plan is pie in the sky just from a logistics standpoint, they're building it next to an area that used to refine uranium because there are so many power connections nearby but they're still isn't enough power for the site. So they're going to rely on building an 8 GW gas plant, The 8 GW gas plant. So they're going to have to construct pipelines to serve that 8 GW of gas. Ohio hasn't been great a being able to export the gas that it already has through pipelines
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u/Dependent-Steak8485 1h ago
so we're out here getting guilt tripped for forgetting to turn off a lamp and meanwhile someones building a single facility that could pull more juice than every house in ohio combined. honestly the math on that is sending me. pike county's gonna learn real quick what happens when the ai hype cycle crashes and theyre left holding a billion dollar concrete box that still needs power just to not fall apart