"Great! What a wonderful spring!" Shen Zhong exclaimed, his eyes brimming with excitement as he watched the hot spring gushing out.
"Hehe, Professor Shen, what do you think is the future of our geothermal power plant?" Chen Yu asked with a smile.
"Yes, this outlet is perfect. Such a high temperature is also rare. Most importantly, I dare say that its water output is far more than this. If we can expand the outlet, its water output will reach a terrifying level!" Shen Zhong said with certainty, his whole body trembling with excitement.
“That’s right. I had someone assess it before. This one outlet alone is enough to support a generator set with an installed capacity of 30,000 kilowatts!” Chen Yu said with a smile.
"30,000 kilowatts?" Shen Zhong murmured, his eyes narrowing slightly. "I think it's far more than that, 50,000 kilowatts, I bet 50,000 kilowatts!"
"Oh! Professor Shen is so confident?" Chen Yu asked, somewhat surprised.
Shen Zhong nodded and said, "There shouldn't be any problem, but we need to conduct further investigations to draw a conclusion about the specific situation."
Hearing Shen Zhong say this, Chen Yu felt excited. Under the right conditions, a 30,000-kilowatt generator set can theoretically generate 30,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour. If it were a 50,000-kilowatt generator set, wouldn't it be able to generate 50,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour?
Of course, this is under ideal conditions, but a 50,000-kilowatt generator set can still generate 35,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour on average. Even under the influence of the extreme cold in the post-apocalyptic world, it can still generate at least 20,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour.
While 20,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour may be far from enough to power a data center, it is more than enough to maintain his post-apocalyptic bunker.
Chen Yu's idea was to build the power station for this water outlet directly inside the mountain, ensuring that it could be completely controlled by him, supplying power to his post-apocalyptic bunker as well as some power to the data center.
As for the remaining gap? Anyway, there are plenty of geothermal outlets on this mountain. We can just use those scattered outlets to build a main power plant outside the mountain to supply electricity.
Unfortunately, the power generation of a data center is terrifying. The data center that Chen Yu plans to build is initially planned to start with 10,000 server racks. At the very least, it will consume at least 50,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour. Such a terrifying amount of electricity cannot be supplied by a geothermal power plant with just one outlet. Not all outlets are inside the mountain. If the power plant is deliberately built inside the mountain, it will not only attract external questioning, but the government will probably not approve it.
"Professor Shen, thank you for everything you've done." Chen Yu thanked Shen Zhong again.
"Mr. Chen, you're too kind. This is my job." Shen Zhong waved his hand and continued to study.
When Chen Yu was first brought to this water outlet inside the cave by Zhou Zhihao, the cave was very stuffy due to the gushing hot spring water.
Fortunately, Chen Yu had specially arranged for an exhaust and air conditioning system to be installed in the cave during this period, making the cave much more comfortable now, at least not like before when one would feel suffocated after just a few minutes.
Accompanied by Chen Yu, Shen Zhong carefully studied the water outlet for more than half an hour before the group finally emerged from the cave.
Next, Chen Yu accompanied Shen Zhong to the remaining dozen or so water outlets on the mountain, and Shen Zhong kept exclaiming in amazement along the way.
After the inspection, Shen Zhong made a preliminary estimate for Chen Yu. According to him, the 18 geothermal outlets of various sizes in Shiban Mountain can support at least a power plant with an installed capacity of 200,000 kilowatts. In other words, if the Shiban Mountain geothermal power plant is built, it can generate at least 150,000 kilowatts of electricity per hour!
Considering the extreme cold of the post-apocalyptic world, Chen Yu estimated that the completion of this power plant would provide him with at least 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity. If only the power supply to his post-apocalyptic bunker and the minimum power supply to the data center were taken into account, then 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour would be more than enough.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu felt incredibly excited.
In the following weeks, under Shen Zhong's arrangement, the two met with several experts in the energy field and selected the most suitable person to fill the vacancy in the team.
With the senior geothermal energy expert Shen Zhong leading the way, a team of geothermal energy experts was assembled in just one month, and all the construction personnel were ready, just waiting for the municipal government's approval.
Chen Yu was not in a hurry. The geothermal power plant was built to support the data center. Once his data center plan was approved, the geothermal power plant would naturally follow.
Chen Yu was quite confident about the approval for the construction of the data center. He wasn't the only one anxious about it; the district government was also very concerned. After all, this data center project was a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology led by Fanfan AI, so how could the district government possibly give up such a good opportunity?
It's worth mentioning that just two weeks ago, Liu Hao's (Shouhu) story began to spread online, much like Chen Yu's memories from his past life.
Seeing his sister and other relatives losing sleep over his situation, and desperately questioning his so-called "girlfriend" online, Liu Hao was deeply saddened. The woman, his supposed "girlfriend," completely distanced herself from the situation, claiming that Liu Hao's relatives were slandering her. She threatened to sue them, cursing Liu Hao for being a scoundrel who harassed her while alive and haunted her even after death. She claimed that all of this was because of Liu Hao.
Later, she even questioned Liu Hao's death, saying that Liu Hao had deliberately faked his death to frame her.
Well... it's not a case of faking death. Liu Hao was just saved by Chen Yu. If he hadn't met the reborn Chen Yu, Liu Hao would have lost his life long ago.
Of course, none of that matters. What matters is that after witnessing all of this, Liu Hao finally woke up and realized how ignorant he had been. It was bad enough that he had been deceived and cheated out of his money by that woman named "Qin Zhu," but he had actually abandoned his family and jumped into the river to commit suicide for such a vicious woman.
Seeing that Liu Hao had moved on from that obsessive relationship, Chen Yu was very gratified, and all his efforts had not been in vain.
However, this matter has been making headlines online recently. If Liu Hao were to step forward now, he would likely be caught in a storm of public opinion. After careful consideration, and at Chen Yu's urging, Liu Hao decided to stay in Anping for the time being and has not contacted the outside world.
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