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Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up? Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned.

Archive: https://archive.today/hvBhj

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>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades. Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.

Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up? Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned. Archive: https://archive.today/hvBhj From the post: >>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades. Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.
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Gee Wally, if only we had rocks that we could literally just dig out of the earth and burn to make power.

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They’re way ahead of you (zerohedge.com). It turns out that nuclear was green energy all along.

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Nuclear produces a lot of low-level waste is the only issue with it. Otherwise, it's about as damn near perfect as you can get.

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Won't China take it?

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CANDU reactors produce a waste, tritium I think, that is in demand in medical / science circles.