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Too damn much for the value it creates.
The oil industry must be so giddy to have found a new scape goat out of nowhere.
Datacenters take a lot of energy because they serve a lot of people. The impact can be lessened with a proper grid centered around renewable.
There are actual things that are fucking up the planet, individuals using AI, gaming or having a Google account aren’t the actual issue.
Data center demand has created huge backlog of gas turbine orders. They’re not planning on renewables for the next big expansion
Ai is destroying our planet. Stop fucking using it.
I read somewhere recently that AI data center open loop water cooling systems drain 100 million liters of freshwater a day and evaporate it away.
Would you mind sharing where you read that?
This isn’t the article I read but it has tons of info about this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/
A problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.
They know exactly what the power consumption of that hardware is though. This isnt tough to figure out just because you use a cloud provider
Replace the CEOs with ai or fuck off
Trying to force the singularity, I see
No I just wanna see the CEO class reap what they’ve sown.
Could you imagine getting fired by your AI CEO because it hallucinated your name into an AI-generated post mortem of a crash caused by AI-generated code
I been fired for less
Fuck…
at least 3
Which means it uses a crazy amount.
When Microsoft is buying nuclear power plants, what could go wrong!?
So much that now they want to turn nuclear reactors back on. Not because it’s green energy but because it’s free energy for them
