Casey Handmer

So on average, you know, if the sun came up every day and the day was the same length all the time, you would need four megawatts of solar arrays, which is about four acres of land.

But in practice, because you're aiming for four nines instead of like one nine, you need an overbuild about two and a half X.

So you've got about 10 acres of solar.

So 10 acres of solar, six truckloads of batteries, one truckload of data center and some cooling stuff.

One megawatt.

That's just one megawatt.

So 10 acres, one megawatt kind of situation at four nines.

Yeah.

So if you want five gigawatts and that's 5,000 times 10, so 50,000 acres.

And actually at larger scale, you can probably cut all those numbers down by 10, 20%, but like on that order.

And like 50,000 acres sounds like a lot.

The amount of land put aside for Oak Ridge was 100,000 acres.

The amount of land put aside for Hanford was about 100,000 acres.

Hanford was where they made the plutonium in the Manhattan Project.

It was about 100,000 acres.

Well, so the reason they, and it's still largely unpopulated now because it's a national laboratory.

But the reason they did that was they thought, oh, we're going to need four acres.

piles to produce plutonium.

These are not, these are not nuclear reactors that produce excess thermal energy.

So you can't actually make nuclear power with them, but you're making plutonium with them.