I doubt that datacenter is going to be using 5GW either... that would be using all of the electricity of 5 nuclear power plants. That single datacenter would be using .5% of the entire grid of the USA... (that would be the power of ~50 million quad-core processors)

It's going to be using 5GW-hr or ~570kW avg.

I know it's what the IBM article says too... but you can't use 2,800 Megawatts per year. The unit's don't work... it's probably 2,800 Megawatt-hours per year. (Which would be an average usage of 320,000 watts)

The unit mismatch is like saying you drive 65 miles per hour per year... it's only useful to say you drove a certain number of miles or drive at an average rate... watts/year as well as mph/year would actually represent accelerations, and are useful measures in different ways than most people think... (e.g. world energy consumption could be said to be increasing by so many watts/year or a spaceship might accelerate by so many MPH/year but you cant "use" or "move" in units of watts/year or mph/year)

Here's hoping the press release guy at IBM isn't tasked with any real work...

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