Elon: FSD Beta tweets

[Daniel in SD]

I wanted to make a joke here about solar power, but I failed. A random gov website says an avg home uses 10.5 megawatters per year. So that is Tesla DC about 108,457 homes worth of power. Another random website says 100 megawatts is used by an "avg data center" and says this is equivalent to the power used by 80k homes, so that's about right.

When you read about these data centers using a lot of power it is hard to think of that in human terms; one several football sized building is using the same power as ~100k homes.

I screwed up the math in my head. I was thinking 1 trillion kilowatt hours. 1 billion kilowatt hours isn’t nearly as much. Also it seems like you could shut down AI training when electricity is super expensive. Not sure if they do that.

 

[JulienW]

I screwed up the math in my head. I was thinking 1 trillion kilowatt hours. 1 billion kilowatt hours isn’t nearly as much......

But ONLY by a factor of 1000x.

Just to add here is a site with some good basic info on data centers. Living in ATL (4th most) we have had a little kerfuffle about them lately.

United States Data Centers: Top 10 Locations in the USA

Data centers in the United States (US) are located in Northern Virginia, Dallas, Northern California, Phoenix, Chicago, Atlanta, Portland, and New York.

dgtlinfra.com

 

[Kevy Baby]

...one several football sized building is using the same power as ~100k homes.

American's will measure every way but the metric system

 

[JulienW]

American's will measure every way but the metric system

Yeah, but that must be as big as 100lb bag of those millimeter things.

 

[LowlyOilBurner]

American's will measure every way but the metric system

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That’s MAYBE 4 washing machines, last time I checked. 6-7, no way.

 

[Kevy Baby]

That’s MAYBE 4 washing machines, last time I checked. 6-7, no way.

Are you calling KSHB 41 News a liar?

 

[LowlyOilBurner]

Are you calling KSHB 41 News a liar?

Perhaps. We need more information about the size and type of washing machine they used to estimate the size of the sink hole. Are we talking front loaders, top loaders? Professional series Speed Queens, or happy homeowner big box store type washers. A lot of metrics go into this equation.

 

[dramsey]

American's will measure every way but the metric system

At least most of us know how to use the apostrophe.

 

[AlanSubie4Life]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805813026316337563

 

[Bouba]

That’s MAYBE 4 washing machines, last time I checked. 6-7, no way.

That hole is at least two washing machines deep....
Football pitches are also a unit of measurement (both sides of the Atlantic).....curiously, especially when measuring aircraft carriers

 

[JulienW]

Perhaps. We need more information about the size and type of washing machine they used to estimate the size of the sink hole. Are we talking front loaders, top loaders? Professional series Speed Queens, or happy homeowner big box store type washers. A lot of metrics go into this equation.

The washing machines they used were the size of 24 toaster ovens.

 

[parsec]

Are you calling KSHB 41 News a liar?

KSHB uses apartment size washing machines as their standard measuring device. Typically, their news response units include a truck (one about the size of a swimming pool) loaded with 3 x 10^1 such washing machines. For very large measurements, they use mobile homes. They take all this very seriously, and have never been caught lying about such things.

 

[Kevy Baby]

At least most of us know how to use the apostrophe.

ARGH - how did that get in there?

 

[EVNow]

At least most of us know how to use the apostrophe.

I'm fairly sure you are generalizing based on a small sample

 

[dramsey]

ARGH - how did that get in there?

Likely automatically inserted by your phone/computer. Not that that gets you a pass. You know how you’re always responsible for your car even with FSD engaged? It’s like that.

 

[Bouba]

How many washing machines is today’s sinkhole?

 

[JulienW]

How many washing machines is today’s sinkhole?

That is what we m'eracans call a 2 ton (not no f'en metric tonne) load of washing machines on a dumb a$$ wasted soccer field when it could have been a REAL football field.

 

[Yelobird]

How many washing machines is today’s sinkhole?
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That would help soccer be partially interesting to watch anyway.

 

[Seattle]

How many washing machines is today’s sinkhole?

I see that as about one datacenter's worth. Imagine the cooling flow you'd get if you filled that hole up with a giant multi-washing machine sized fan and put the DC in the free hole?